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...later, sent its Secretary of State to toast Kim with champagne. Early in the Bush Administration, it was back to war preparations and talk of a "strangulation strategy"; now, again, the full diplomatic embrace is on. U.S. envoy Christopher Hill made a surprise trip to Pyongyang on Thursday - the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the North in five years - in order to "move the process forward" and "make up for lost time" in the race to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, according to a State Department statement...
Court No.2 at London's Lambs club is the closest thing to a spiritual home for the game of squash. For decades, its white walls and clear glass back have locked the sport's top players into duels for some of its highest honors; photographs of those big names - from Pakistan's Jahangir Khan to Australia's Geoff Hunt - hang on the wall behind a steep bank of polished, wooden seats...
...boomier. HGTV, the homespun redoubt of gardening and glue-gun projects that became a cable hit in the post-9/11 cocooning era, is now dominated by what it calls "Property Buzz" shows: series about buying and selling homes, which now make up six of the channel's 10 highest-rated shows. Shows like Secrets That Sell!, Designed to Sell, Bought & Sold, Get It Sold--notice a pattern?--offer a guide to tapping, Jed Clampett--style, the gusher of wealth sitting under your property. "What will people do to sell?" asks the intro of Buy Me. "How far will buyers...
...told to build an ark in preparation for a coming flood. A premise for surefire laughs, unless you happen to live in New Orleans. But God didn't foot the bill for the movie's cost overruns; Universal did. The final price tag was something like $175 million, the highest ever for a comedy, and that doesn't include the $40 million or so for marketing the picture. If Evan Almighty, which opens on June 22, triumphs at the box office, it will prove the second law of movie economics: that a comedy star can carry a big picture...
...hired and fired-according to their skills and their willingness to do tough jobs rather than seniority. There is a simple test of credibility on education for Democrats. You must be willing to say to the unions, We're with you when it comes to building a floor-the highest possible minimum-wage standard for teachers-but we don't want you building ceilings on merit pay or walls to limit hiring, firing, where and how long teachers teach...