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...during the so-called six-party talks, to shutter its Yongbyon nuclear plant within 60 days of signing what was then billed as a breakthrough agreement. In return, the North would get a variety of economic and diplomatic benefits. After several years of fruitless talks, this seemed like a major diplomatic victory for the Bush Administration and its partners - Japan, South Korea, Russia and China. But Kim delayed moving on Yongbyon until the North got back more than $20 million that had been frozen in a Macau bank account - funds the U.S. believes were tied to the North's various...
...fear Darjeeling, which opens the New York Film Festival Sept. 28 and will play in major cities shortly thereafter, is beyond even Wilson's powers of persuasion. It's basically the story of three well-heeled guys on one of those self-help vacations that upper-class searchers took in the '60s. Go to India and get your life validated by the Maharishi. Or get good drugs at fire-sale prices. This could have ended up as a Midnight Express nightmare, except that the Whitman boys' luck is a little better, a little weirder. One of them finds romance with...
...Nokia can expect more of the same rockiness. TIME also contacted major European carriers Vodafone, T-Mobile and Telefonica O2. None were willing to comment on the delicate subject of Nokia's services push. "Clearly, there are tensions. This puts them on a collision course with some their customers," says Ben Wood, a director with London telecom consultancy CCS Insight. But Wood noted that operators should consider what he called a "greater good" scenario in which customers who buy a Nokia phone through the operator might dip more into the operators own service offerings as well...
...Website that will mark the company's formal Internet coming out when it launches later this year. Ovi - the Finnish word for "door" - could even offer TV programs at some point. Vanjoki, who is in charge of marketing Ovi, says it will includes millions of songs from all 4 major record labels as well as from regional bands. Nokia has set a European price of 1 Euro for a tune, and of 10 Euros for a CD. It has not finalized U.K. pricing, but when I searched for Dexter Gordon CD's in a test drive, the screen showed...
...university. Andrews wrote in an e-mail that she has been offered deanships at other medical schools but considered Duke’s offer above the others. “I was particularly impressed by the fact that Duke is already doing the kinds of things that other major medical schools are talking about doing—for example, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations, strengthening clinical research, connecting science and policy, linking basic and clinical sciences,” she wrote. In addition, Andrews wrote that she found Duke more open to new initiatives and projects than Harvard. “There...