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...dismantle his nuclear arms program. After a promising start to carrying out landmark denuclearization agreements signed by the North in 2007 - deals reached through the six-party talks involving North Korea, South Korea, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan - Pyongyang is no longer cooperating. North Korea shut down its main reactor at Yongbyon in July and allowed in international inspectors, as called for by its agreements. But a deadline to disclose all of its nuclear programs and disable the Yongbyon facilities came and went at the end of last year. To try to break the impasse, U.S. Assistant Secretary...
Tsvangirai's record as Zimbabwe's main opposition leader has some blemishes. In 2005 the MDC split in two after a breakaway faction questioned what it perceived as Tsvangirai's autocratic tendencies. The division led to doubts about his leadership skills. "There are some real concerns about him and his ability," says Alex Vines, head of the Africa Program at Chatham House in London. Tsvangirai's reponse: "Every leader has his faults. I am not a perfect human being." After 28 years of Mugabe, Zimbabweans may be happy to settle for less than perfect...
...Pakistanis and Bangladeshis cannot claim lack of education prior to immigration as an excuse for their lack of progress either. Immigrants from the Caribbean arrived three generations ago, around the same time as the main influx of Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants, with over 70 percent lacking education. The number of Caribbean Britons lacking education is now less than 25 percent...
...person. I started to feel more comfortable with who I was and speaking up in class,” Marquina says. She carried this sense of self-confidence from the uniform-clad halls of Woodlands Academy to the steps of Widener Library, citing her single-sex education as the main reason for this easy transition. But even with a high school emphasis on feminist confidence, it remains that single-sex schools cannot possibly superimpose their academic philosophies onto larger, coed universities. While within the confines of a small high school traditional classroom dynamics can be nullified, when such students graduate...
...Senator who mined this turf most profitably was ... Barack Obama (a surprise, since you never expect a presidential peacock to be succinct or acute enough in these bloviathons). Obama hit Petraeus and Crocker with an artful series of questions about the two main threats: Sunni terrorists like al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Iran. He noted that al-Qaeda had been rejected by the Iraqi Sunnis and chased to the northern city of Mosul. If U.S. and Iraqi troops succeeded there, what was next? He proposed: "Our goal is not to hunt down and eliminate every single trace of al-Qaeda...