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...Iraq war drags on and its chief advocates fade, the diplomats are stealing some late-game limelight. That's due in large part to Rice, who has consolidated her authority over the Administration's foreign policy and made course corrections that have resulted in a denuclearization pact with North Korea, a new push in the Middle East and tentative moves toward negotiating with Iran and Syria about the future of Iraq...
Future Systems was founded in 1979 by Jan Kaplicky, a Czech émigré to Britain who fled Czechoslovakia 10 days after the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968. "I didn't have more time to live under a dictatorship," he says. As it would turn out, he also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years...
...believed to be in Germany. And even as the foreign minister was announcing her resignation, the Supreme Court, which in Colombia is charged with investigating and prosecuting crimes by sitting lawmakers, was questioning three senators who, along with some 40 other politicians, signed a manifesto describing "a new social pact" between paras and politicians to form a new power, at about the same time the paramilitary groups were declared terrorists...
...turning the privatization of the Russian energy sector into a sleazy scam, trading oil and gas fields for campaign contributions. Meanwhile, ordinary Russians had to endure rampant inflation and unemployment. Small wonder Russia's geopolitical standing seemed to crumble during the 1990s. As former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact allies queued up to join NATO, the superpower seemed really to have become--as the cold war joke had it--Upper Volta with missiles...
...Administration can't be accused of overhyping what it got in Beijing. This was not a comprehensive solution that could bring about a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. Under the pact, North Korea agreed to shut down within 60 days its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, where it's believed to have produced the fissile material needed to make the six to 10 nuclear weapons Kim is estimated to possess. Pyongyang has also promised to allow international inspectors into the country to verify compliance. In return, the North is to receive an emergency shipment of fuel oil from the U.S., China, Russia...