Word: brinksmanship
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Saddam Hussein may be living in a cell, but he still gets to try his hand at brinksmanship. Tuesday, he tried to go nuclear, getting himself ejected for the third time in as many sessions of the Anfal trial - and prompting all six of his fellow defendants to follow suit. He seems to have found his newest weapon. After all, what's a trial without defendants...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw may still exemplify the special relationship that has traditionally existed between the U.S. and Great Britain, practically finishing each other's sentences as they trouble-shoot their way through Iran?s nuclear brinksmanship, Israeli-Palestinian hostilities or sectarian tensions in Iraq. But as the two learned on Friday, a vocal part of the British people don't necessarily share a sense of kinship with their brethren ? or at least their brethrens' elected government ? across the Atlantic...
...passed unanimously this summer. But the House, which Burden characterized as more partisan and extreme, may not be open to the Senate’s version of the act. According to Burden, leaving the renewal of the Patriot Act to days before its expiration has been characterized as political brinksmanship intended to pressure moderates with some reservations to pass the measure. If so, Burden said, the tactic clearly backfired with the failure of the cloture vote. But the increased pressure now may be exactly what Congress needs to resolve controversy on aspects of the Patriot Act, Burden said. Like many...
...latest intelligence. That could mean technicians are plugging the shaft to conduct an underground test. Or not. "Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test?" asks the official. "Yes. Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's track record of bluff and brinksmanship, "it is very possible they are pretending it is a test," says Choi Jin Wook, an expert on North Korea at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification...
...Game ends watching Ripley watching his girlfriend’s musical performance, it feels strange. Cavini fell into the modern dilemma of pandering to those of us raised at the teat of safe conclusions: Ripley loses the game and we are left wondering why his brinksmanship did not carry...