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...give Iran a tactical edge in the nuclear showdown. They scoff at U.S. arguments that Iran's huge oil and gas reserves make nuclear power needless and point out that before the 1979 Islamic revolution, Washington supported the Shah's plan to build nuclear-power plants. In spite of bitter differences with the mullahs over other issues, like freedom and human rights, moderate leaders, including Khatami, have embraced Iran's nuclear aspirations. The regime has won some key diplomatic victories, such as Europe's formal acknowledgment in the Nov. 14 agreement that Iran has the right to peaceful nuclear technology...
...Russia, where he would seek some form of diplomatic deportation back to the U.S. and turn himself in. As he made his way toward the border, he tied a white T shirt over the muzzle of his M-14 rifle and traipsed for several hours through the bitter cold, stepping lightly so as not to trip a land mine. Not long after dawn, Jenkins came upon a 10-ft.-high fence. A North Korean soldier spotted him, alerted his comrades, and they whisked Jenkins inside. The American says he realized almost immediately that he had made a mistake...
...between rebels and government-backed militias has left 70,000 dead and more than 2 million homeless in what Washington calls genocide. The new version of the song is mellower than the original, but the lyrics are the same: In Africa this Christmas, "the only water flowing/ Is the bitter sting of tears." Still...
...once employed may have been an illegal immigrant, and that he had not paid some taxes on her salary, became the fatal flaw for the man whose prospective job would include enforcing immigration laws. "The good news is he found it, he came forward and he cut off a bitter conflict that would have cost the President capital," Giuliani says. "The bad news is that it could have been caught earlier...
...idea of how different things are at the New York Stock Exchange these days, peek inside the office of CEO John Thain, the M.I.T. grad and former president of Goldman Sachs who had to be talked into taking the job after former CEO and chairman Richard Grasso's bitter departure amid an excessive-pay flap and charges of board cronyism. Grasso, a passionate stock-exchange lifer, famously littered his office with several hundred treasured mementos from the companies whose shares are traded at the exchange. The more clinical Thain, 49, displays mainly his own collection of modern...