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...been for a year or so. Then there is another group of 200 to 300 for whom this buying is bringing China into their sights." Kostyal, who recently flew into Beijing for two days of gallery tours and visits to artists' studios, believes that a larger group will soon begin to buy, further bolstering the market...
...from the field in the opening frame. Harvard responded on offense with a 45.0 percent clip on the night, but untimely breakdowns and a deafening pro-Wisconsin crowd made for a long night on the defensive end. The Badgers broke the game open with a 15-0 run to begin the second half, propelled by a pair of back-to-back three pointers from Anderson and Mariah Dunham. Five Wisconsin players scored in the stretch before Anderson capped off the run with another three to make it 61-38 with 12:02 left in the game. “Every...
China has the most difficult task of all the participants in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program that begin Monday in Beijing. As the chief patron of the North Korean regime - China supplies up to half the country's food requirement and even more of its daily oil needs - Beijing has long been seen as the only party with any real influence over the actions of the erratic Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. But Kim gave his backers in Beijing a rude surprise on October 9, when North Korea announced that it had tested a nuclear...
...With the talks about to begin again and Pyongyang at least nominally willing to discuss how its nuclear program can be limited, Beijing now has to "think very hard about how they can be more effective," Lieberthal says. But in reality, Beijing's options are very limited. Pyongyang made it clear with the nuclear test - undertaken despite the express and public request by China's President Hu Jintao to refrain - that there are limits to Beijing's influence in Pyongyang...
...region. There has been growing speculation that King Abdullah will soon accede to pleas from leaders of Sunni tribes in Iraq - some of whom have blood ties with members of the Saudi leadership - for money for arms and armor for their own militias, especially if the U.S. were to begin to withdraw and the country fall further into chaos. And though the Bush Administration has taken issue with a recent New York Times report that King Abdullah himself told Cheney much the same thing during his recent visit to the Kingdom, there is little doubt that the Saudis are feeling...