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...sort of grew up there. I’m from the suburbs of Chicago, and as many a middle-of-the-country dweller will tell you (and especially people from the city itself), Chicago is not the Midwest. But on the other hand, I also live in Lombard, IL, which is right next to Wheaton, IL, which is the hometown of superstar televangelist Billy Graham. It’s a town where teachers can’t say the word “evolution” in a biology class and where Wheaton College runs The Billy Graham Center (slogan...
Well, the first thing you’ll notice is it wouldn’t be on everyone else’s list of “Best Places To Go For Valentine’s Day.” Il Panino Original—advertised as Boston’s first authentic trattoria and the birthplace of owner Frank DePasquale’s North End empire—attracts a more confident crowd. Panino is for couples secure enough to forgo the schmaltz—that never as charming as it sounds combination of Johnny Ten-Bucks-An-Hour...
...aftermath of 9/11, a decision was taken to seek regime change in Iraq. That Saddam is a dangerous tyrant who should be removed from the world stage is indisputable?from both Asian and American points of view. But the Bush Administration's agenda?to resolve the Kim Jong Il problem after Saddam is deposed?may be tipping into obsolescence. Asians wonder at what point Kim Jong Il's weapons projects and bellicose talk will finally cause a reordering of American priorities. Building a diplomatic coalition to resolve the North Korean problem will take almost as much arm twisting and sweet...
...Secretary also fails to mention the horrible potential cost of a second Asian front. During the latter half of the 20th century the U.S. lost more lives in combat in Asia than in wars in the rest of the world combined.) The current approach of treating Kim Jong Il as less dangerous than Saddam Hussein and the North Korean problem as little more than a troubling sideshow is what opens the U.S. to accusations of caring more about oil than security. Averting yet another Asian conflict should be a more central and immediate goal of U.S. policy...
...Asians, the sight of Secretary of State Colin Powell at the U.N. playing audio tapes of Iraqi officers allegedly discussing the hiding of chemical weapons seems almost comical when Kim Jong Il's scientists have fired up a nuclear reactor, the primary purpose of which is to produce weapons-grade plutonium. American inaction in the face of North Korean threats amounts to throwing oil onto the fire. Or should I say putting petroleum before a burning issue...