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Even with modest expectations, the opening round of multilateral talks on North Korea's nuclear-weapons plans in Beijing last week was less than successful. Diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan left the six-sided bargaining table--custom-built for the talks--with no real progress...
Hillary Clinton may have hogged the spotlight this summer with her hot-selling memoir, but this fall her low-key successor, Laura Bush, will be taking her own modest turn in the public eye. Normally publicity shy, the First Lady is raising her profile over the coming weeks, appearing in Ladies' Home Journal, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar and on the Lifetime channel. The former librarian will emphasize her signature issues--reading and teaching--and spend some time raising awareness about a topic that's new to her agenda: heart disease...
Despite all the accolades, Ford earned a reputation among his students as a private and modest teacher with a lean, yet erudite lecture style. He was known to offer tacit guidance rather than overbearing direction...
...Modest expectations are almost a given when it comes to untangling the North Korean nuclear crisis. But even judged by these underwhelming standards, the multilateral talks in Beijing last week were less than successful. Diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan left the six-sided bargaining table?custom built for the talks?offering few signs of progress. There were no concessions from the principal antagonists, the U.S. and North Korea. The parties couldn't muster enough consensus to release a joint declaration of common goals. And then, on Saturday, the North declared itself uninterested...
...customer input. His REINS International fast-food empire has now grown to 1,080 locations. (McD's has 3,821 in Japan.) New footholds in Los Angeles and Taiwan mark the latest expansion: Nishiyama hopes to become a top vendor in the U.S. and China. "It's a pretty modest goal," he says. --Reported by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo...