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...Saga Group, his family's business, in late 2004. The British travel, media and financial-services company that targets older consumers attracted several major bidders, with London private-equity firm Charterhouse ultimately paying $2.4 billion. Not bad for what De Haan's father started 53 years earlier as a modest operator of guest hotels and tours in the English seaside resort of Folkestone...
...stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. Indeed, the Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korea nuclear quagmire-with regime change as one of its options-has faded. Instead, the U.S. now seems willing to take a more modest, measured approach in pursuit of the ultimate goal of a denuclearized North. The first step was to halt the forward progress of Kim's nuclear program. It will be harder getting him to reverse course...
...Libya-like solution and agree to completely rid itself of nuclear equipment and material, as Muammar Gaddafi's regime did in 2003. The best we can hope for, perhaps, is convincing Pyongyang not to produce any additional nuclear weapons. In 60 days' time, we'll know if even this modest goal can be reached. Now that the previous objective of achieving complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement looks increasingly unrealistic, the question boils down to this: Should the rest of the world accept a North Korea that has nuclear weapons as long as that number isn't increasing...
...presidency. Those meetings could set the stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. The Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korean threat--such as regime change in Pyongyang--has faded. Instead, the U.S. seems willing to pursue a more modest strategy: bargaining away North Korea's nuclear program, one deal at a time...
Thirty years ago, the gay community was fighting (and losing) a real battle in the backyard of every Jewish boy’s grandmother. In June 1977, reacting to a modest gay rights ordinance adopted in Dade County, Florida, former beauty queen and Christian activist Anita Bryant mounted a campaign called, slyly enough, “Save Our Children.” Bryant and her SOC called for the repeal of the ordinance, which was the first in the country to grant protection in housing, public accommodations, and employment to people based on their “affectional or sexual...