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...role in leading nonproliferation enforcement efforts is somewhat hypocritical. We need to set a better example. Timothy C. Hohn Lake Forest Park, Washington, U.S. Negotiation is by far the best way to defuse North Korea's nuclear crisis. But if severe international sanctions are necessary, we shouldn't expect cooperation from China because its national security would be threatened by a sudden collapse of North Korea. There would be a huge influx of Korean refugees, and the power vacuum might be filled with military forces headed by the U.S. While the world condemns Pyongyang for its irresponsible nuclear test...
...first one to admit that I didn’t expect that he’d be able to play basketball in the Big Ten,” Crimson football head coach Tim Murphy says. “I maybe caught five minutes of a Minnesota Gopher game, and I sent him a note, an e-mail congratulations, after he’d been in Sports Illustrated, and I said, ‘yeah, you should give football...
...Iraq dominates the national political landscape, one might expect the candidates to talk about the overseas war. They do, of course, but by far the more popular discussion is who will bring more pork to Montana...
...Force One flew to Pensacola, Fla., on Monday for one of the President's final rallies, Snow gave a preview of the language you can expect to hear him using on television as he talks about the coming legislative season, beginning with the breakfast shows on Wednesday. "There's the thing that you do need to know," he said, "which is that the President plans for a very active final two years of his presidency. And there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed that everybody knows need to be addressed. One is winning...
...TIME asked Snow what he meant by that, and his answer served as a preview of points he can be expected to make frequently in the days ahead. "What've you've had is a very toxic atmosphere," he said. "Democrats have decided, and Nancy Pelosi has said as much, that the strategy is to tear down the President. While that may be effective as a political strategy, and I have questions about that, it's not good for the country and people are bored with it. When you have a war on terror that's not going...