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...nuclear weapons program. "It's pretty clear they have made the strategic choice to be a nuclear power, period, and will no longer hold out the weapons program as a thing to be bargained away in talks with the U.S. and its neighbors," says Bruce Klingner, a former deputy chief of the Korea desk at the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and now a senior fellow at Washington's Heritage Foundation. "They've decided that now is the time to raise, not lower, the walls against foreign interference." (Read "Jailed U.S. Reporters: Business as Usual for North Korea...
...officials knew such leaking was going on, they did nothing about it. Even out of office, Rumsfeld has sought to nudge his erstwhile colleagues to correct the record. He wrote Powell, for instance, objecting to statements by Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired U.S. Army colonel who served as Powell's chief of staff, in which Wilkerson alleged that senior defense officials had quietly encouraged Taiwanese politicians to move toward a declaration of independence from mainland China - an act that the Communist regime has repeatedly warned would provoke a military strike...
...with team owners over how to divide the profits from selling the TV rights to their games. The same issue regularly pops up in English Premier League soccer. "There is a continual, not always disastrous, dialogue about the share of the commercial rewards of sporting events," notes Chris Aylett, chief executive of Britain's Motorsport Industry Association. "What's more important? The Super Bowl or the teams playing in it? In that sense, F1 has had that dialogue going for a while." (Read "Formula One: Behind the Wheels...
...fighting, often in and around residential areas in Mogadishu, has killed hundreds and displaced more than 100,000. Hours before Thursday's attack, 17 people died in fighting in Mogadishu. Those deaths came just hours after Mogadishu police chief Ali Said Hassan was killed. The ferocity of the fighting and its high-profile victims raise the chances of Sharif's government falling to the Islamists...
Someone jokes that "Today Hashemi carries us to victory!" referring to the fact that the the metro system, an enormously profitable cash cow, is run by the son of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, who also happens to be one of the chief backers of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's presidential election...