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At the global body, founded on altruism by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Trump staked a narrower claim.Kevin Lanarque鈥擱eutersBy Simon ShusterSeptember 21, stanley cup 2017 5:32 AM EDTThe shock value of Pr stanley cup esident Donald Trump first speech to the U.N., on Sept. 19, derived, predictably, from its flights of rhetoricmost notably his threat to totally destroy North Korea. But the idea on which the speech was based was far more conventional: sovereignty. Trump referred to it 20 times in 42 minutes, and six of those references were as part of a trio that he called the pillars of peace: sovereignty, security and prosperity.It is a list of priorities that often comes up during the annual General Assembly, though in recent years usually from lapsed democracies, rogue states or authoritarian regimes. For 400 years, the international order has been based on the idea that sovereignty allows for a balance of power between nation states. But after two world wars, America sponsored the United Nations as a forum for more diplomatic confrontation, as well as tackling transnational threats that individual countries alone cannot manage, like humanitarian crises, terrorism or international aggression. Usually it has been the U.S. that has pushed international norms on states like Russia, China, Iran or North Korea, while the leaders of these countries have cited sovereignty in their defense.Which made Trump 8 stanley cup 217 speech something of a contradiction. Sovereignty Gugn Read Apple CEO Tim Cook s Letter Challenging Order to Unlock iPhone
South Carolina voters dead to polls during the state s primary on Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C.Win McNamee鈥擥etty ImagesBy Lily RothmanFebruary 18, 2016 3:00 PM ESTWhat the matter with South Carolina Wit ugg h the state Republican presidential primary scheduled for Saturday, there have been reports of negative robocalls from mysterious groups and word of push pollsmdash urveys that are ostensibly neutral but in fact lead voters to a particular opinion. Charleston Post and Courier has launched a website to keep track of questionable campaign activity. So far, the reports range from stolen yard signs to a robocall asking how respondent] felt about the fact that Trump is trying to stop veterans from running business af1 es in New York City because they are ey adidas samba esores. After all, the state has a reputation as home of some of America most underhanded political tricks.Ask a veteran of South Carolina politics to name the ugliest chapter in his statersquo low-down and dirty political history and he may be slow to answer, Michael Crowley noted in TIME back in 2012. Not because hersquo offended, but because there are so many acts of dark magic to choose from.The examples listed by Crowley were many: the 2000 whisper campaign that alleged that John McCain adopted daughter, who is from Bangladesh, was in fact his own illegitimate African-American child; the 2008 Mormon-themed greeting ca
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