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...neoconservative fantasy--and of the Likud government, which was handily re-elected last week--the Bush Administration has been dangerously out of touch in the Middle East. The standard term of art for what America should be doing is "engagement," a euphemism suggesting that we twist Ariel Sharon's arm. But effective diplomacy entails the twisting of all available arms, and Lieberman faults the White House for not pressuring the fatuous Europeans and deceitful Arabs "to get the Palestinian leadership to stop the terror." Indeed, the Middle East mess starts with the Arabs, with their state-fed spew of anti...
...million provide more than eight out of every 10 jobs in urban China and account for three-quarters of the country's total industrial output. "Small businesses are simply the most important component of China's economy," says Eric Siew of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the commercial lending arm of the World Bank. The IFC also runs training programs for Chinese bankers...
...Jong Il problem after Saddam is deposed?may be tipping into obsolescence. Asians wonder at what point Kim Jong Il's weapons projects and bellicose talk will finally cause a reordering of American priorities. Building a diplomatic coalition to resolve the North Korean problem will take almost as much arm twisting and sweet talking as convincing the Europeans to climb on board for Baghdad. South Korea continues a unilateral policy of engagement with North Korea that amounts to appeasement. China's goal is to prop up North Korea rather than risk a flood of refugees. Japan wavers between resolve...
...residency was planned by the Office for the Arts (OFA) to give the choir—a touring arm of the intensive choral academy—a taste of a Harvard education...
Thursday’s suit, filed in federal district court in Maryland, comes in response to Templeton Asset Management’s initial suit filed on Jan. 29. That lawsuit alleges that the University was employing “strong-arm investment tactics” to further a “self-serving, short-term agenda” potentially at the expense of other investors in the funds...