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That night, Albright hosted a dinner at the Magnolia Hall in downtown Pyongyang. Past several gates manned by nervous guards, Albright entered through heavy wood doors into a relatively light and airy interior. At either end of the long hall in which Albright waited to greet Kim, were back-lit photographs of woods, mountains and planted gardens. Kim arrived soon after, shaking Albright's hand, and then moving down the line of her senior aides. His attendant, looking annoyed, repeatedly gesticulated for the Secretary of State to follow Kim down the line...
...didn't want to go through the ordeal and have him greet me with this incredibly pained and unhappy impression," Rose says. "I told him I wouldn't anymore unless he woke up with a smile. So he did. He would give me a big smile. Totally faked...
...reports - gathered by TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees and Jerusalem reporters Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein - tell the tale of people struggling to adjust in the face of a collapsing world. Some greet the new chaos with resignation, others with a fervent, steely passion to win what they feel their people deserve. All the entries are tinged with sadness. The week began with a hurried summit in Egypt, at which President Clinton squeezed an oral cease-fire plan from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. On Friday, wild fighting in many of the disputed...
...plenty of worries about the effects of interest-rate hikes on the U.S. economy in the past few months, but when he takes the oath of office next Jan. 20, the next President, whether it's Al Gore or George W. Bush, will inherit the sunniest economic prospects to greet any new Chief Executive since Lyndon Johnson in 1963. Yes, it looks like the output of goods and services will be increasing more slowly. But the growth rate will slip only from one that clearly was too fast to last to a pace that can be kept up for years...
...Banks reports that members of Shanghai's international community greet him as the savior of the city, which is being torn by skirmishes between the nationalists and communists and by shelling from the Japanese. "Mr. Banks," a woman says, "do you have any idea at all how relieved we all feel now that you're finally with us?" He, in turn, assures a crowd of nervous well wishers: "Ladies and gentlemen. I can well see the situation here has grown rather trying. And I have no wish to raise false expectations at such a time...