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...pomp and circumstance-the police-escorted limousines cruising unimpeded through capital cities, the grand conference rooms, the hordes of assistants and aides-international diplomacy can be a grindingly tough and draining business. For three years, Christopher Hill, the lead U.S. negotiator in the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea, had sought a Grand Bargain with Pyongyang, only to be frustrated at every turn. Finally, in the early hours of Feb. 13, that changed. Thanks in part to the Chinese, who played the stern taskmaster during the latest round of negotiations in Beijing ("they kept us up very late," Hill...
...always approached it as a great blessing, just thinking what an honor it is to be able to represent my country, and play with some of the players that are some of the best in the world.”The team assembles in Grand Forks, Mich. for a pre-World Championships training camp on March 21, wrapping up on April 1 with the second of two scrimmages against Sweden, the country that knocked the U.S. from gold-medal contention with a stunning upset in the semifinal round last February in Turin, Italy. Then it?...
...grand tradition of years past, the editors of FM challenge Harvard’s future president to a game of Scrabble. A past generation of editors faced Lawrence H. Summers in tennis... but we aren’t nearly as athletic as they were...
...nation’s highest office. “I have only one objective,” South Korean National Assembly member Park Geun-hye said. “I am in to save my country.” Park, who chaired South Korea’s conservative Grand National Party from 2004 to 2006, said that the international community must “brace for more difficult tasks that surely lie ahead” in dealing with her country’s neighbor to the north. “South Korea is facing grave security issues of North Korea...
...claim that the fact that there are two black coaches heading the teams in the Super Bowl represents some kind of grand achievement in the history of the race is insulting to the accomplishments of those who came before them. It belittles and downplays the immeasurable significance of the events that Coke lumps in with the Super Bowl. The two black guys in Miami in 2007 paled in comparison to the man in Washington, D.C. in 1963, the woman in Montgomery in 1955, or—the original barrier-breaking pioneer in the athletic world?...