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...nuclear weapons was still somewhere in North Korea, but no more had been separated. The entire plutonium-production program was frozen and under International Atomic Energy Agency inspection; and the other elements of the framework were on track. The problem was the secret North Korean effort to enrich uranium for a nuclear-weapons program. The Bush Administration's approach to the problem quickly took shape when it confronted Pyongyang with the knowledge of the secret program and the demand that the North give it up before any further negotiations could take place. When Pyongyang refused, the U.S. abandoned the Agreed...
...Iran continues to enrich uranium, the U.S. military has issued a "Prepare to Deploy" order. Most U.S. readers blamed escalating tensions on a trigger-happy Administration at home...
...Parsi: Although the EU representative, Javier Solana, reported that progress had been made in his talks with Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, the Iranians have thus far continued to reject the Western demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations. Solana and Larijani had been looking for a formula that would have the Iranians halt enrichment activities for a clearly defined period to allow such talks to begin. But the Iranians are reluctant to accept any deal that removes their right to enrich uranium at some point in the future; even if they do so temporarily...
...much as these stories enrich one another, they also add weight, and occasionally the accumulation becomes more than the novel can bear. Horn writes in slyly beautiful prose—a forest at sunset can suddenly become “a drawstring bag…tightening the early evening sky with wrinkles of naked branches”—but the movements between storylines often feel heavy and imposed. But when Ben comes home from the museum and looks at the Chagall painting (a study of a man floating over a city), we read that Ben himself feels...
...based my application essay to the Center for Hellenic Studies on the advice of my stoner Classics buddies. Whether by intervention of the gods or professors with clout, I ended up on a plane to Athens. College students often use study abroad as a way to improve language skills, enrich term-time academic pursuits, or reconnect with their cultural heritage. I knew only enough conversational Greek to say “No, stop, I don’t want to do that,” I study American History and Literature, and I’m less Greek than...