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...however, has placed these costly projects on hold. He says he expects the North's cooperation on issues important to Seoul, such as holding reunions of families that have been separated since the end of the Korean War. Perhaps more importantly, Lee is making greater economic ties contingent on progress in denuclearization. If Kim completely abandons all of his nuclear programs, Lee says he'll institute a vast aid package aimed at tripling North Korea's annual per capita gross national income to $3,000. (South Korea's is more than $20,000.) Says Kim Tae Hyo, Lee's secretary...
...author of a dozen graphic novels - three of which have been about Cambodia's war years - he is working to rekindle Cambodia's interest in the art form. Since his debut showing in Phnom Penh, he has been regularly returning to the city of his boyhood to hold workshops for aspiring illustrators. "It's important to try to approach the reality of our times," he says. "This is a media that only needs a pen and paper to express something." He is also helping to publish the nation's first anthology of up-and-coming comic-book artists...
...three preceding albums represent the work of a band that was still growing and maturing. To compare the R.E.M. of a quarter-century ago with the R.E.M. of today makes no more sense than saying the Beatles' Strawberry Fields is inferior to I Want to Hold Your Hand. I admire artists who have the courage to evolve. Debbie Gilbert, Cleveland, Georgia
...Economy could represent the rest of Commerce, the rest of Agriculture, Labor, Energy and Transportation. All three of them could be big names, with independent bases of power. And a President who really cared about alleviating poverty - or reducing carbon emissions, or any other domestic policy objective - could hold all of them responsible for getting the job done...
Lesson One: The Americans don't have as tight a hold on the government of Nouri al-Mailiki as one might think. Many Iraqis hostile to the government take Maliki to be little more than an American stooge. But Petraeus revealed to lawmakers that Maliki went against his advice in launching an attack against the Mahdi Army in Basra, where Maliki's forces were quickly bogged down and bloodied by Sadr's street fighters. That means the Americans may not have the ability to stop the Iraqi government from an even worse strategic blunder in a place where Sunni insurgents...