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...from Fonda-admits there is some skepticism when one of the most famous white women in the world speaks to minority families about sexual health and gender equality. "People definitely come with perceptions," says Ozumba. "But because this is so obviously personal for her, she's been able to disarm the stereotypes...
...December 2002, I had a spell of the Ari Agitation. We were returning on Air Force One from St. Petersburg, Russia. I was trying to get Fleischer to explain how the President's hope that Saddam Hussein would peaceably disarm was consistent with his earlier view that the Iraqi leader should be removed from office. Fleischer insisted that Bush's policy was "regime change," a term the Administration used to muddle the less diplomatic but real goal of removing Saddam from office. It was a familiar dodge, but a little clarity from the plainspoken Texan's administration about going...
...Rice's overriding goal was to find a way to restart the six-way talks among North Korea, the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, stalled since Pyongyang confirmed in early February that it possessed nuclear weapons. Bush and Rice have long believed that the best way to disarm Kim Jong Il is to persuade China, which has the greatest stake in the region, to muscle the North Koreans into multilateral talks. Lately, the Chinese have been cool to cutting North Korea's aid to get them back to the table. China's Foreign Minister has even hinted that...
...risk of breakdown in the system grows. Conceding to Kurdish demands on Kirkuk, for example, will further alienate the Sunni population of northern Iraq. Also, if the peshmerga are maintained on the terms demanded by the Kurdish leaders, it will inevitably be more difficult to persuade other factions to disarm their own militias. The Sunnis may not currently have significant representation in the political process, but a significant segment of the community is represented on the battlefield by the insurgency. If the Kurds and Sunnis continue to bear arms, there may be less incentive for militias attached to various Shiite...
...time, Nasrallah has boosted Hizballah's campaign against Israel, promoting suicide bombings and other violent attacks over Hizballah's Manar satellite channel and sending Hizballah's guerrillas to smuggle arms into the West Bank. Such meddling infuriates Hizballah's critics in Washington, who have pushed the Bush Administration to disarm Hizballah, through either military strikes or U.N. sanctions. But last week Administration officials abstained from denouncing Hizballah and suggested the group should be encouraged to complete its transformation into a political party. "Let's see what the Lebanese people want to be when they grow up," says a veteran Washington...