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...Foggy Bottom, the response could be: Why not, indeed? The worst-kept diplomatic secret in the world may be that the State Department pretty much sees eye to eye with North Korea on a central issue: Washington should deal with Pyongyang one-on-one. The multilateral approach of the six-party talks has been at best cumbersome and at worst counterproductive, some diplomats say. Charles L. (Jack) Pritchard, Bush's former special envoy to the DPRK, has said all the participants in the talks "made it abundantly clear" that they support direct U.S. engagement, including the Chinese, the North...
...many people have the opportunity to see the world from a bird’s eye view. But then again, not many people can pole vault like Nico Weiler.The Crimson freshman continued his strong campaign last Friday at the Harvard/Yale-Oxford/Cambridge match in New Haven, Conn., setting a new meet record of 5.20 meters in conditions that were not exactly the most ideal for outdoor pole vaulting. “I think I did pretty well,” Weiler said. “It was pretty cold, and they considered moving the pole vault indoors. Most people performed...
...ready to try to put it all together….[in] a defense of liberalism against the totalitarian threat,” Beer wrote. Many of his former students praised Beer’s engaging personality and dedication to teaching.“He had a very good eye for the most important questions in politics and was intensely engaged with the thinkers over the ages who had worked with those questions,” Hall said. “When you talked to Sam Beer you were engaging in a dialogue with Marx, Weber, or Augustine. He had read...
...exemplified as they visit a second-hand clothing store to pick out a new sweater for Sunaura. “This is going to be a new show: ‘Shopping with Judith Butler,’” Sunaura quips. “For the queer eye,” Butler gamely adds as she winks at the camera.“Examined Life” is filled with many such animated and appealing moments, affirming Taylor’s implicit premise for the film, West’s declaration that “there?...
...observer effect, but the viewer never gets a glimpse behind the band’s indie cutesy-pie veneer, and it always seems like the band members are performing scripted roles.Even these roles are equivocal. Butler comes off as, alternately, a revival preacher and wild-eyed revolutionary; either way, he exudes a scary amount of solemn zeal. His wife, multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne, gets some face time too—during which she never seems quite hinged, exactly. But for the most part, unless you really know the band members coming in, they remain mostly anonymous, faceless.That...