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...fantastic to see such agreement on the issue, even if it was in a politicized atmosphere,” said Katherine D. Kinzler, a psychology student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Chen said he signed the purchase agreement with the new owners on Friday and is in the process of finishing the paperwork to complete the transfer of ownership. He said the transfer should be finalized in the next month...
...leaders, Rice met with all the participants individually but steered clear of the summit to avoid the appearance of U.S. overreach. And an Israeli official notes that in private negotiating sessions, Rice has a clever way of pushing hard on an issue, even if only to elicit a vague agreement. But then she immediately doubles down. "She'll restate it in a firmer way," says this official, "and then pocket it as a commitment." Says an Arab diplomat: "This one is nimble, very nimble...
Rice needed all those moves and more last week, as she shuttled across Asia on her first swing through that region. What she brought back home was not immediately tangible. Unable to win from India or Pakistan an agreement to halt participation in a natural-gas pipeline from Iran, a country that the U.S. would like to isolate, she repeatedly emphasized that Washington backs recent efforts by both nations to mend their 58-year bitter dispute over the divided region of Kashmir. After stops in Afghanistan and Tokyo, where she called for greater democracy across Asia, Rice moved...
...million robbery at a Belfast bank in December that the British and Irish governments have blamed on the armed group. Congressional supporters of Sinn Fein say the group must dismantle the I.R.A. if it hopes to revive failing peace negotiations with the other parties to the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Adams told TIME that he supports the "objective of bringing an end to all armed groups," but he would not commit to a specific date. "I don't think pressure works," he says. He condemns McCartney's murder but says the I.R.A. was not responsible for it: "Mr. Robert McCartney...