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Recently South Korea has acceded to a number of international conventions covering children’s rights, adoption issues and international child abduction. In March the U.N. convention on child abductio...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:15
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Are Shinzo Abe’s days as Japan’s prime minister numbered? Many will dismiss this question as premature or naive ― perhaps both. The architect of “Abenomics” boasts a higher approval rating than any of the eight previous Japanese prime ministers. Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party is head...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:15
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The election of Hassan Rowhani as Iran’s president has drawn stern warnings, including from the Israeli prime minister, against the hope that his victory signals meaningful change. It’s too soon to know exactly what it signals ― but the result is a welcome surprise and an opportunity th...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:12
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How do criminals get their guns? Are there observable patterns to gun crime? Who is at the greatest risk of injury, or causing injury to others, from firearm use? Which gun-safety practices are most effective at preventing accidental injury? The answers to these and other basic questions r...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:12
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Six months ago, Americans reacted with horror to the slaughter of 20 children and six school employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Suddenly, gun safety legislation was front and center everywhere, including Washington.Then in April, a recalcitrant Senate succumbed to ...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:12
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When it comes to the issue of “society” versus the “individual,” Koreans tend to stress the importance of society, whereas Americans value the individual and individuality. Koreans tend to think t...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:12
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Iran’s presidential election presents a paradox. The vote was free enough for Hassan Rohani to score a shocking win and for the favored conservative candidate to finish a dismal third. And yet it was blatantly unfair because hundreds of reformist and pragmatic candidates were blocked from...
Updated : 2013.06.17 19:49
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WASHINGTON ― What is America’s strategy in the Middle East? That question is more urgent as the Obama administration finally moves to arm the Syrian opposition. The U.S. needs a framework that conne...
Updated : 2013.06.17 19:49
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CAMBRIDGE ― The term “currency wars” is a catchy way of saying “competitive devaluation.” In the wake of the sharp fall in the value of the yen over the last six months, owing to the monetary component of Japan’s efforts to jump-start its economy, the issue is expected to feature pro...
Updated : 2013.06.17 19:48
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NEW DELHI ― A casual reader of India’s newspapers for the last several weeks would be forgiven for wondering whether the country was suddenly bereft of political controversy, sex scandals, or official corruption ― normally the standard headline fare here. The newspapers’ front pages ha...
Updated : 2013.06.17 19:48
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The Syrian conflict began in January 2011 and still continues. The conflicts in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya that started around the same time did not last long because the incumbent leaders of the three ...
Updated : 2013.06.17 19:48
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Let the geeks, and we use the term endearingly, argue over the changes Apple Inc. announced this week to its mobile operating system. Our focus is on something more prosaic: an advertisement ― and what that ad says about the state of U.S. manufacturing. Apple’s latest slick promotion tou...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:28
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Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when Tea Partiers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011. They’ve basically shut down ...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:28
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Should the U.S. be taking economic lessons from India? Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich thinks so. Perhaps not from India as a whole, but at least from the booming western state of Gujarat, which has enjoyed 10 percent-plus growth under its controversial chief minister, Narendra Modi. “...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:26
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PARIS ― Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor on the lam for having dumped some classified documents on the desk of a British reporter, says that he doesn’t consider himself a hero, but his girlfriend’s blog paints a different picture, with delusions of grandeur...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:26
