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...Just over four months into Barack Obama's presidency, North Korea has become his first foreign policy crisis. To force itself to the top of Obama's agenda, the North has resorted to just about every nasty tactic short of war - testing both a long-range rocket and a nuclear bomb, arresting two American journalists and sentencing them to harsh prison terms. With such provocations, North Korea seems intent on establishing that it is more dangerous than ever. Kim Jong Un is at least part of the reason...
Obama, President Barack • emptiness of post-Inauguration pronouncement by that "my Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government" is exposed by refusal of to reveal names of visitors to the White House...
...help pay for an overhaul that could cost north of $1 trillion, that impact could be even tougher than expected. A recent proposal by the White House would cut some $216 billion in Medicaid and Medicare funding, including $106 billion that now goes directly to hospitals. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...reformist movement - by a staggering 50% but also managed to win in Azerbaijan, the birthplace of his chief rival, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, by a 4-to-1 margin. (As an Azeri friend of mine said, this would be akin to Senator John McCain winning the African-American vote against Barack Obama.) It seems odd that the election was called so soon after the polls had closed, despite the many millions of ballots still to be counted, most of them by hand. (Read "Thirty Years After the Revolution, U.S. Still Struggling to Understand Iran...
...crowd pushes in. We are all arms, legs, elbows. Even for a country with no notion of personal space the compression on the train is incredible. Readers who had the privilege of being in Washingon D.C. for Barack Obama's inauguration will remember the scenes at the Capitol Hill metro stations. This tudeh, or mass, is the same, maybe more. For almost a week now, every day has been Inauguration Day in Tehran. (Read Joe Klein's account of what he saw in Tehran...