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...policy toward North Korea has now officially flip-flopped: A little over five years ago, President Bush declared an end to the Clinton-era policy of offering inducements for good behavior by the North Koreans, questioning whether Pyongyang could be trusted to keep a deal. But this week's talks between the two sides show that Washington's diplomatic embrace of Pyongyang is tighter than at any point since then-Secretary of State Madeline Albright offered a champagne toast to the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in late...
...scene straight out of the history books: unabashed, ugly discrimination. In a scene that belied fifty years of progress on American college campuses, 23 of the 35 women of the DePauw chapter of the Delta Zeta (DZ) sorority, including every overweight member, and the only black, Vietnamese, and Korean members, were summarily uprooted from their house and effectively evicted from their chapter, by many accounts part of an image makeover mandated by adult officers of DZ’s national organization. We use the term “adult” loosely. For the national organization’s seeming...
...carnage at Bagram Air Force Base is still being assessed. One report had two Americans and a South Korean killed, with eyewitnesses saying anywhere from four to eight foreigners and at least a score of Afghans were among the dead or wounded. The bomber did not get too far into the Bagram facility: the explosion occurred at the first gate. He would have had to get past at least three other checkpoints before actually being on the base. It is, nevertheless, the latest in a string of violent attacks throughout the country that may herald the start of an anticipated...
...Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Palm d’Or winner “L’Enfant” nomination? Where is Romanian director Cristi Puiu’s “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” honor? Where is the recognition for Korean director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “Three Times”? You can’t complain that the films are too hard to find in the U.S.—all three are already available on Netflix. Look out, Academy members—I might have...
...Cheney, who was scheduled to meet on Feb. 22 with the parents of one Japanese abductee victim, calmed nerves in Tokyo by reiterating American support for the North Korean kidnapping issue, and diplomats on both sides are playing down talk of a divide over North Korea. "I don't agree with people who argue that Japan is being left behind [by the U.S.]," says a senior Japanese official. Certainly the American and Japanese militaries are only growing closer, as Japan sheds its postwar pacifism and asserts itself more vigorously in concert with the U.S. But any alliance needs shared goals...