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...Handouts in the Dark "The North's Bitter Harvest," on how North Korea is on the brink of famine [June 20], addressed a controversial issue. Should other countries provide North Korea with humanitarian aid when it refuses to relinquish its nuclear arsenal? The answer should be no. We do not know if donated food really goes to the poor and needy. How can one expect to resolve a crisis without being certain of the facts? We should decide to provide aid only if we know for certain the hungry will receive the food. Jennifer Bo-yu Chen Bangkok
Food had become scarce, medical supplies were running out, and gasoline was being rationed. When heavily armed troops last week encircled government buildings in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, the country appeared to be tottering on the brink of a coup...
...invited foreign investment. Now, halfway through De la Madrid's six-year term, another precipitous drop in the price of oil, which is expected to cost Mexico $6 billion in revenues, and $4 billion in losses caused by last September's catastrophic earthquake have pushed Mexico back to the brink...
...sexual, is Rendell's favorite terrain. The title story evokes an eerie and doomed romance between a timid woman and her friend's too pretty husband, a closet transvestite. The Orchard Walls tells of adultery and long-concealed vengeance from the viewpoint of a bystander, a girl on the brink of puberty, in whose mind daydreams and overheard dalliances fatally mingle. Rendell sketches a close-knit, gossipy group of old women in The Convolvulus Clock. One of them impulsively steals an artist-designed timepiece. Guilt and fear of disapproval from her friends slowly drive her cuckoo. Father's Day presents...
...democratic eyes. Rafsanjani is pragmatic in comparison with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei in the same way that the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev was pragmatic in comparison with Joseph Stalin. Klein should recall that the Cuban missile crisis, during which the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war, occurred under the Soviet leadership of the "pragmatic" Khrushchev. Arun Khanna Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Although I admire President Bush's sincere attempt to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq and bring democracy to the Middle East, his policies are doomed to failure. In Arab Muslim states, real...