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...Jong Il now has the U.S. right where he has wanted it all along - ready to sit across the bargaining table, one on one. The Obama administration said late last week it is willing to negotiate directly with Pyongyang, if only, in the words of State Department spokesman PJ Crowley, to get back to the six-party format invented during the George W. Bush administration...
...five partners in the P5+1 negotiating group (France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China) went ahead and asked for a meeting with Tehran anyway - if for no other reason than to "test the proposition" that Iran is ready for dialogue, as State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley put it. (Read "How Obama Hopes to Restart Mideast Peace Talks...
...long been the summer home of black luminaries including Gates, Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (who honeymooned here in 1934). "That is why I like it here," Gates told TIME after returning from his White House beer summit with Obama and Sergeant James Crowley, the Cambridge, Mass., police officer whose altercation with Gates sparked a summer's worth of agitated headlines. "To me, it's racial heaven." (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...grab a beer." That was the invitation extended by President Obama, who is seeking to dial down the racial tension surrounding black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s July 16 arrest by a white police officer. On July 30, Gates and the arresting officer, Sergeant James Crowley, will meet with Obama at the White House to have a beer and discuss the maybe-racist-maybe-not incident in which the three men find themselves entangled. Anticipatory news reports of the drinking session have included a seemingly bizarre fact: the White House only serves domestic, or American-made, beer...
When Henry Louis Gates Jr. comes to the White House, he will be able to get whatever kind of beer he wants, even if it's German or Jamaican. Crowley, who reportedly favors the domestic wheat beer Blue Moon, will receive the same treatment. There has been no word on whether the White House carries these brews on a regular basis - though that may not matter. In a July 27 appearance, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs offered to make the beer...