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Under a pristine blue sky on the University of Nairobi campus, Africans in bright robes and turbans mingled with denimed Europeans wearing punk haircuts, Muslims behind veils, and Americans in trim safari gear. Thousands of women from some 130 countries poured into Kenya's capital city last week for two conferences to mark the end of the United Nations Decade for Women, one sponsored by the U.N., the other, called Forum '85, a parallel meeting of non-governmental organizations. Many had high hopes that the gatherings would provide a sisterly exchange of ideas and strategies. "You will see something that...
...high gear now. He does not sound like a man out of office. He emphasizes that the entire history of nuclear diplomacy under the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon administrations led to a narrowing of the nuclear option. Thus the only way out for the superpowers is arms control, but "arms control must not be sought as a goal in itself. Far more important is our political understanding of the Soviets." For Nixon, this is where things get interesting, where the country gets interesting. Odd to realize that Nixon's America is not home and hearth, not the Fourth of July...
...Korea, that could leave North Asia ill-equipped to defuse what may be the most serious threat of all to regional security: a nuclear North Korea. Six-party talks with the hermit kingdom have stalled and bickering among three of the participants certainly won't help them get into gear. "Now that you need Japanese cooperation more than ever, you make [the Tokdo islands] an issue?" says Balbina Hwang, an expert on Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. "This has gone completely out of control." That harmonious future President Roh spoke of so glowingly just three months...
Defeating the Big Red was not as easy as the score suggested, as the Crimson took a while to get into gear in its singles matches after crushing Cornell (8-5, 1-2) in doubles play...
...dominatrix named Gail (Rosario Dawson) and a spunky hooker played by "Gilmore Girls"’s Alexis Bledel, overact to the point of high-school-play foolishness. Still, their costumes are some of the best in the film: Dawson manages to look like an Amazon in fishnet bondage gear and Bledel is arresting with her green-tinted eyes and shining white crucifixes hanging from her neck and ears...