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...aimed at Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has left the door open to the possibility of re-engaging Washington in talks - though not in the so-called six-party format, which includes all of North Korea's direct neighbors, that Obama favors. "We must pay keen attention to what signal North Korea sent to Bill Clinton," says Yun Duk min, a professor at a think tank affiliated with the South Korean Foreign Ministry. "A key to break the stalemate may lie in there." (See pictures of North Koreans going to the polls...
...profession was created in 1965, the same year as the invention of Medicare, which dramatically increased the need for primary-care providers. Yet while nurse practitioners can be valuable assets in the context of health reform, they have also created a conflict with doctors, many of whom are not keen on being supplanted by providers with far less training; doctors in some cases have lobbied to restrict the services of nurse practitioners. "In some situations, it can be a turf battle," acknowledges Rebecca Patton, president of the American Nursing Association...
After the forum, I spoke with Nichols, the jewelry designer, and no surprise: she's a Republican - with a keen understanding of Moore's political situation. Republicans outnumber Democrats in Kansas, but in recent years they have been more interested in internecine combat than in fighting the opposition. Splits over issues like abortion and creationism opened the door for Democrats like Moore and former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius to win moderate GOP votes by focusing on education, the environment and economic development...
...keen to emphasize India's responsibilities," says New Delhi-based strategic-affairs analyst Brahma Chellaney. "On NPT [non-proliferation treaty], on climate change, the attempt is to see what India can do. But the U.S.'s own policies in this regard have been high on rhetoric and low on action." Ever since India and the U.S. first decided to put aside Cold War-era mistrust and start taking baby steps toward a friendship powered by a shared distrust of China and a common commitment to democracy, skeptics have warned that mutual interests do not naturally coalesce. (See pictures...
...tuning fork, McChrystal has a certain monkish mythology about him that his aides seem keen to foster. In Afghanistan, they say, he gets up at 4 a.m. to run and e-mail before his workday really begins with an 8:30 video briefing with his regional commanders across the country. His iPod and Kindle (the newest model) are stocked by his wife with serious tomes on Pakistan, Lincoln and Vietnam. Right now, he is reading William Maley's 2002 book The Afghanistan Wars, a catalog of the long list of British failures in Afghanistan. McChrystal famously eats little during...