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...TIME: Growing up you had a coach, Taras ("Stink") Brown, who wouldn't let you play pickup games with your friends. Instead, he insisted that you do dribbling drills, and sprint up a steep hill near your DC-area home. How did you feel about that...
...Kevin Durant: The hill was the worst by far. No matter how cold it was outside, no matter how hot it was, you had to run. It wasn't just 5 or 10 runs-it was 75, sometimes 100. If my mother came out there, she would double it. If it was 100, it would...
...electricity grid) as well as a long-sought diplomatic concession: direct negotiations with Washington that could eventually lead, according to the agreement, to normalization of ties between the U.S. and North Korea. As a signal to Pyongyang that the Bush Administration means what it says about establishing diplomatic ties, Hill in a June 22 press conference in Seoul said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was prepared to attend six-party talks in Beijing this summer. That would be the first meeting between a U.S. Secretary of State and senior North Korean officials since Madeleine Albright met with Kim in Pyongyang...
...never a straight line from point A to point B, no matter what [the agreement] the North has signed might say," acknowledges one diplomat involved in the six-party talks. "You obviously hope for the best, but you're always on your guard, and you just keep working it." Hill himself acknowledged the most obvious potential deal breaker is the alleged uranium-enrichment program. The U.S. claims Pyongyang admitted to such a program when confronted in 2002, but North Korean officials have since denied its existence. The U.S. appears intent on pressing for full disclosure. "We need to get somewhere...
...surrender all of its nuclear weapons, no matter what the incentives. "It beggars the imagination to believe that the North Korean regime will give up what's been its policy for at least the last 25 years [the pursuit of nuclear weapons] thanks to the sound of the Chris Hill's sweet voice," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. But if Kim does indeed shut down his reactor next month, that will, undeniably, represent progress. And as one foreign diplomat put it, considering that North Korea conducted...