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...Beyoglu district, Victoria Short, wife of the British consul general, stepped across the narrow street from her husband's office to pick up milk for his coffee. She paused to chat with the shop owner as a green catering van sped up the narrow street, smashed into tall wrought-iron gates at the corner of the walled consulate compound and blew...
Stay with me here. In 2000, George W. Bush rode into town on a platform of “compassionate conservatism.” I say it’s high time the Democrats embraced the logical counterweight to that position: tyrannical liberalism. An iron-fisted approach to social justice is almost certain to appeal to swing voters...
...address the security challenge, the U.S. has gone back to a war footing. Coalition forces launched an offensive, code-named Operation Iron Hammer, that included attacks from helicopter gunships on supposed safe houses and arms dumps used by the opposition. In a further sign that the U.S. means business, General John Abizaid, head of Central Command, and some 200 of his war planners will soon move from Tampa, Fla., to the forward command position in Qatar that they occupied during last spring's battle to topple Saddam...
...driver who was irked when she refused to sleep with him reported her to the police. On the truck back to North Korea, Kim swallowed a 50-yuan note wrapped in plastic. When she reached the detention center in Hyesan, she was searched, hosed down and beaten with an iron stick. But the next day, Kim's 50-yuan note reappeared, and she bribed her way out of the camp. A second journey to China a few months later also ended in failure. As a repeat refugee, Kim was dispatched to a gulag. This time, she had no 50-yuan...
...thirds of South America's economy, he notes - so to call Brazil isolated "is the same as negotiating with Asia and saying India and China are isolated." This does not sound like a recipe for compromise, though in a meeting this month in Washington, Zoellick and Amorim tried to iron out differences. "What we're most likely to see in Miami is the ultimate failure of the U.S. and Brazil to agree," says Connolly. "At best we may see a cosmetic ftaa that has no teeth." That might not upset U.S. President George W. Bush. As he mounts...