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...demands. Despite all the work Rice has put into her coalition, diplomatic efforts are moving too slowly, some believe, to stop the Iranians before they acquire the makings of a nuclear device. And Iran has played its hand shrewdly so far. Tehran took weeks to reply to a formal proposal from the U.N. Security Council calling on a halt to uranium enrichment. When it did, its official response was a mosaic of half-steps, conditions and boilerplate that suggested Tehran has little intention of backing down. "The Iranians," says a Western diplomat in Washington, "are very able negotiators...
...group advising the search for the next University president held Wednesday the first of what they say will be many roundtable discussions with students to seek input on the presidential search. For the first time in recent history, students have a formal voice—via the student advisory group—in the search process for the president, although the final decision will be made by the nine members of the search committee, who are all members of the Harvard Corporation or the Board of Overseers. The undergraduate members of the student advisory group—Whitney...
...immediate problem is a case study in diplomatic hairsplitting. Iran is not currently offering to suspend enrichment before talks begin, as the U.S. and Europe have demanded. In its formal response to the U.S.-backed incentive package offering economic rewards for ending uranium enrichment, Iran rejected the principle that it suspend enrichment as a precondition for negotiation. Instead, the Iranians appear to be offering the possibility of suspending enrichment for a defined period in the course of negotiations - a position reiterated last weekend in talks between Tehran's top negotiator, Ali Larijani, and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana...
...gently tweaked her vision of neat, tailored dresses with sparkly gold sequins and a few puff ball skirts. The strongest show came from out-of-towners Kate and Laura Mulleavy who brought their chiffon mille-feuille frocks to New York from Pasadena. These two sisters, who have no formal fashion training but a healthy dose of imagination, presented their first runway show, and their vision, although a bit quirky, was strangely captivating. What all these designers have in common is an airy, romantic notion of what women should wear...
Says Beattie: "Her classic glamour and formal elegance really fit with what we do. She's Welsh, but many people think she's Latin American or southern European, so she has an extremely wide appeal. Because she started on the stage, singing and dancing, she's engaging in front of crowds, and she has a genuine affinity for our products. It doesn't hurt or help us that she's in the T-Mobile...