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...White House health czar, was originally created as an add-on title for former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, who had to withdraw from consideration for Health and Human Services Secretary because of tax problems. But with Daschle out, the White House decided that it still needed a high-level coordinator for the reform effort. "It's good to have someone who is really riding herd and only thinking of one thing," said one White House official...
...believe his involvement will facilitate high-level engagement with North Korea and our other partners, and enhance our efforts to move forward in the Six-Party process and to realize our goal of the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner." - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, announcing Bosworth's appointment at press conference, February...
...mildly, distracted. We're not able to bring the same level of attention to a problem like North Korea that we might have been able to bring five, ten years ago." - In an address to the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Inauguration...
Alain le Roy, head of the U.N. Peacekeeping Department, acknowledged some fear of upheaval. "What we don't know is the level of violence," he said. "We hope the government of Sudan will act responsibly to make sure that all beginnings of violence will be stopped in due time...
...traveled - road to Damascus has suddenly been busy with American emissaries, including Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, who visited Syria last month. The flurry of diplomatic excitement caused by Clinton's public handshake with Moallem, followed by Tuesday's announcement that Washington will soon send two high-level envoys to Damascus for talks, is both a welcome sign of thaw and a reminder of how little common ground currently exists between the two countries...