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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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[Joel Brinkley] Obama’s Middle East dilemma
As Palestinians head to the United Nations this week, President Obama faces one of the most excruciating dilemmas of his presidency, a predicament partly of his own making.After four decades of failed negotiations with Israel, Palestinians are hoping the U.N. will finally grant them a sovereign stat
Sept. 21, 2011
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[Noah Feldman] Abbas’ U.N. offensive might be a step toward peace
Just what is Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas thinking? At the new United Nations session, he has announced, the Palestinian National Authority will ask the Security Council to recognize Palestine as a state. The application will be dead on arrival: the U.S. has already said it will veto. Abbas, in
Sept. 21, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Mistrust among European banks
WASHINGTON ― Global financial markets depend on trust. So it wasn’t a good sign when Laurence Parisot, the head of the French business federation known as “Medef,” last month charged that reports about the weakness of French banks were an American plot. “There has been a kind of psychological warfar
Sept. 21, 2011
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[Glenn Hubbard] Short-term stimulus won’t help U.S. in the long run
Joblessness and sluggish growth are hampering the economic recovery and Barack Obama’s political standing. Raising taxes on the rich, as the president called for on Monday, isn’t going to turn things around. To get a sense of how severe the situation is, consider this: Bringing the unemployment rate
Sept. 21, 2011
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[Frida Ghitis] Waiting for revolution in Cuba, Burma, N.K.
For all the luxuries they enjoy, dictators live in a state of constant fear.Without the trust of their people they must always protect themselves against real, imagined, or even potential plots. They may be paranoid, but they’re right to be afraid. That’s true now more than ever.These are scary time
Sept. 21, 2011
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Move ahead on pipeline from Canada
It’s a boom time in the Canadian province of Alberta, where technological advances and sky-high commodity prices have turned the region’s oil sands into a sticky, tarry gold mine.Here’s a safe prediction: The United States will share in this bounty, one way or another. Canada will ship oil to its la
Sept. 20, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] Settlement of comfort women issue
“Much as we may feel for the plight of the (comfort women), the court of the United States simply is not authorized to hear their case.” That was the final sentence of the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Hwang Geum Joo et al. v. Japan issued in June 2005, which was
Sept. 20, 2011
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‘Contagion’ lurks just outside office bathroom
A terrible wave of germaphobia is spreading across the world, and all of it can be blamed on “Contagion,” the new thriller starring Matt Damon. “It really bothers me,” said a victim of the new germaphobia. “You don’t really know what it’s like.”Actually, I do. But it was never this bad, until now, t
Sept. 20, 2011
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[Reza Aslan] Yes to Palestine
Later this month, the Palestinian Authority intends to go before the United Nations to request recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Although there is strong backing for the bid, the United States, in the name of supporting Israel, has stated its willingness to use its Security Council ve
Sept. 20, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Americans learning from Asia
We learn from each other. We learn not only from our parents and teachers, but also from our children and students. As a father, I try to convey my experiences to my children whenever necessary, but at the same time, I often learn from them as well. And as a professor, I not only teach my students w
Sept. 20, 2011
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Tax reform may be the only deficit reduction plan
Last time we looked in on the congressional “supercommittee,” its members were preparing for a sober task: slashing future federal deficits by ― for openers ― more than a trillion dollars. Yet there was reason to hope this designated dozen really could roam the full realm of government spending and
Sept. 19, 2011
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[Zbigniew Brzezinski] Toward universal political culture
WASHINGTON ― A common challenge to all of us is inherent in the ongoing transformation of global politics.Let me begin with three broad assertions, then briefly elaborate on each of them, and conclude by making a modest proposal.― First, global peace is threatened not by utopian fanaticism, as was t
Sept. 19, 2011
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[Virginia Postrel] Harvard’s freshman pledge values ‘kindness’
When the members of the class of 2015 arrived at Harvard College this fall, they encountered a novel bit of moral education. Their dorm proctors ― the grad students who live with freshmen to provide guidance and enforce discipline ― invited each student to sign a pledge developed by the Freshman Dea
Sept. 19, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] Many Iraqis who helped U.S. still awaiting visas
In July, I wrote about the plight of Iraqis who worked with U.S. soldiers and civilians but face death as “collaborators” when we leave. Their situation remains unresolved.Congress set up a special program in 2008 to grant these Iraqis 25,000 special immigrant visas (SIVs) over five years. Only 3,62
Sept. 19, 2011
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[Graciana del Castillo] Economics of peace in Afghanistan
KABUL ― Suicide bombings, assassinations of top Afghan leaders, brutal attacks on Charikar and other places close to Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, and a rapid increase in civilian deaths from drone attacks are jeopardizing the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from the country. So pervasive has
Sept. 19, 2011
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[Stephen Carter] Google do-gooder discount leaves churches to beg
I am not sure what exactly led Google Inc. to decide to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible by making it harder for religious groups to do their work. But that is the practical effect of a set of changes in pricing policies adopted by the tech giant this year. Until recently, Goo
Sept. 18, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Israel and the Arab street
WASHINGTON ― The expanding confrontation between Israel and its neighbors has been described variously as a “train wreck,” a “lose-lose situation” and a “political tsunami.” It’s all those things, and likely to get worse: For there’s no quick fix by Israel’s ally, the United States. The Obama a
Sept. 18, 2011
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Euro bonds won’t cure what ails Europe
In recent weeks, euro bonds have gained traction in policy circles as the solution to the sovereign-debt crisis. The proposed debt could be structured in different ways, but in all cases it would imply joint and severally issued obligations by the members of the euro zone and would fundamentally cha
Sept. 18, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Save the nation ― buy now
Remember the famous Stanford marshmallow study of 1972? It asked children at a campus nursery school to choose between eating a marshmallow (or a cookie or a pretzel, depending on their preference) right away or waiting while the researcher stepped out of the room for a period of time, at which poin
Sept. 18, 2011
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[Peter Singer] Can we increase happiness?
PRINCETON ― The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy of promoting “gross national happiness” instead of economic growth. The two are related: more tourists might boost the economy, but they woul
Sept. 18, 2011