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...carried away with cheap jokes at the President's expense. After all, he's never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed, and the Bush-Kim meeting is important not because of what it may reveal about troubles ahead for the U.S. president on the diplomatic stage, but for the fault line it reveals between the hawks and doves in his administration. Bush's response to Kim raised eyebrows all over Washington and beyond because Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared to be leaning in the opposite direction the previous day. Powell had implied that the Bush administration...
...That's how the President speaks," a White House spokesman told the New York Times last week, in a somewhat lame attempt to explain why George W. Bush hadn't meant what he'd said about North Korea. Asked to explain his rejection of South Korean president Kim Dae Jung's recommendation that Washington urgently pursue President Clinton's efforts to negotiate an end to North Korea's missile program, Bush told reporters, "We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping all terms of all agreements...
...After all, Bush could quite simply have done the "we wholeheartedly support South Korea's peace efforts and are studying ways to take it forward" routine - the diplomatic equivalent of "no comment" - instead of pointedly questioning the wisdom of negotiating with Pyongyang, which was a sharp slapdown to President Kim's "sunshine" policy of reconciliation with the North...
...been meeting since last spring at hotels and private offices around the country, interviewing candidates and discussing their merits. In December, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, chair of the search committee, announced a winnowed list of about 35 candidates to the Board of Overseers --including Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark '74 and Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin...
...Stone reads a winnowed list of 30-40 possible candidates at a meeting of the Board of Overseers. Neither former Vice President Al Gore '69 nor former President Bill Clinton make the cut. Lee C. Bollinger, the president of the University of Michigan, Business School Dean Kim B. Clark '74, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, Princeton Professor Amy Gutmann '71, Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers and Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, are on the list...