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The recent U.S. airline delays reminded us that a dysfunctional government can also mess up our private lives. Congress appears to have temporarily fixed the problem by allowing the Federal Aviation ...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:33
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BERKELEY, California ― A government that does not tax sufficiently to cover its spending will eventually run into all manner of debt-generated trouble. Its nominal interest rates will rise as bondhol...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:33
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Since the advent of the Park administration, “changjo gyeongje,” officially translated “creative economy,” has been the loftiest catchphrase applied to government programs, with all conceptual co...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:33
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The Boston Marathon bombings understandably captured the country’s attention. Americans want to know everything they can about the plot, the perpetrators and their victims, and the news industry has ...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:11
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Those outside Korea just wonder. As North Korea re-defines the meaning of brinkmanship each day by increasing its military threat against the South, what grabs the attention of the foreign media is t...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:10
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Within a few months, the U.S. and European Union will formally launch free-trade talks. Now is the time to think big. After years of neglect, this trade relationship is ripe for improvement. Europe ...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:09
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European Union governments are starting to relax their austerity-first approach to economic policy. Better late than never; we’ve been advising them to do just that for months. It’s a shame the new t...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:09
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If global economists are distraught over the gloomy numbers coming out of China, imagine how Xi Jinping must feel. China’s president, officially in the post for barely a month, is still consolidatin...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:09
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Before jumping into a hasty conclusion, we need to perceive things from different angles and perspectives. For example, even cute animals like rabbits and deer may evoke varied reactions from differe...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:09
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TEL AVIV ― It’s a measure of the relatively quiet time for Israel these days that the sharpest argument at a big national security conference here was between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who wanted “a...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:59
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The 100-day mark is a measure for first-term presidents, not re-elected ones. Yet the end of April is a propitious moment for an early evaluation of how President Barack Obama and congressional Repu...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:58
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OSAKA ― Do China’s rulers have full civilian control of their country’s military? Asian governments are now regularly asking themselves that question as China hardens its stance on its claims to isla...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:58
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The State Department’s latest report on human-rights practices effectively puts the lie to the idea that the piecemeal and illusory changes in Cuba under Gen. Raul Castro represent a genuine politica...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:57
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A terrorist attack is like a national Rorschach test. Everybody sees in it what they want ― usually something that proves a point they’ve been making all along. Even before the Tsarnaev brothers wer...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:57
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PARIS ― In May 1981, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt. Thirty years later, Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Special Forces. But, looking at the world now, one could eas...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:57
