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...when the North verifiably demonstrates that it longer has a weapons-making program. Pyongyang, says the Sejong Institute's Song, "did not like Hillary's nuance at the confirmation hearing, that denuclearization comes before a sincere dialogue. North Korea does not want itself to be on a back burner when it comes to the new Administration's foreign policy. It wants to bypass Seoul and strike a direct deal with the U.S. North Korea is sending a message to Obama that it wants an expedited dialogue." (See pictures of orchestral diplomacy in Pyongyang...
...have a serious governance problem," says Bob Reed, a top aide to Democratic Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, who is taking over now that Blagojevich has been ousted. "So much attention has been focused on the impeachment and now the trial that everything else has been placed on the back burner...
...Gaza was not how Israel was supposed to appear on the strategic agenda of Barack Obama when he takes office in January. Its leaders had hoped to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the back burner of the new Administration, which Israel hopes will make Iran's nuclear program its overriding priority in the Middle East. Instead, the weekend bloodbath in Gaza - the deadliest since Israel occupied the territory in 1967 - casts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an urgent crisis demanding a response from Washington. It also highlights the failure of the Bush Administration's and Israel's policies...
...novel about men - the lives of men, fatherhood, brotherhood, and so on. Even as I was finishing the editing of that book, I had decided that I had to write a second book and address the issues pertaining to women. So I put that idea on the back burner and just kind of let it simmer. I went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2003, and I met with people who worked for nongovernmental organizations, people who worked as policemen, women who were working as teachers, and I basically just listened to their stories. The purpose of the visit...
Four years ago, a Bush-appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board declared that graduate students at private universities were not statutory employees—a decision that effectively neutered collective bargaining efforts by teaching assistants and relegated student unionization to the back burner...