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...Chester, who dispensed affection as unreflectively as he breathed, who got me thinking about this long-ago pact between humans and dogs. Cat lovers and the pet averse will just roll their eyes at such dogophilia. I can't help it. Chester was always at your foot or your hand, waiting to be petted and stroked, played with and talked to. His beautiful blocky head, his wonderful overgrown puppy's body, his baritone bark filled every corner of house and heart...
...invasion began. And both insisted in their testimony that during their private briefings from senior British intelligence officials, it was made clear that Blair was exaggerating the threat presented by Saddam. Short claims she was told by three different senior officials that Blair had, in fact, made a pact with Bush last summer to support an invasion by mid-February, and the weapons evidence had to manipulated to sell that decision to parliament and the public. In Blair's mind, she said, it involved "honorable deception." Cook testified that his own briefings confirmed that British intelligence believed that Iraq possessed...
...website where the Saitama victims met?Shinju Keijiban (Suicide Pact bulletin board service)?has closed, but many others remain. "The method used by youths to construct human relationships has changed," says Takehiko Kikkawa, a psychiatry professor at Chubu Gakuin University?even in cases where the relationship is necessarily short-lived. Some victims never even meet face to face until the fateful day. Nevertheless, they all share a powerful bond: the fear of dying alone...
...this is how I see people. Tragicomedy and ambivalence are part of life." Screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky, a high school classmate of Hrebejk's who wrote all of his features, puts it this way: "We all knew how evil the system was, but we all had to make our pact with it. In a sense it wasn't about being part of the system or not. Most were. It was about not becoming an asshole. It was, 'Can I still bear seeing myself in the mirror?'" Hrebejk isn't sure that Czechs should have done more to fight the communists...
...North Korea went into the talks demanding that Washington agree to a non-aggression pact that rules out any U.S. attempt to force regime-change in Pyongyang. The U.S. representative at the talks, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelley, made clear that a nuclear-armed North Korea was unacceptable to the U.S. and its allies in the region, but that the North Koreans have no reason to fear renouncing nuclear weapons because the U.S. has no intention of attacking them. But Kelley's was not the only voice from Washington to which the North Koreans were listening...