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...absorbed the horrors unfolding around him: at the age of 14, he watched as a group of defeated Japanese soldiers, "aware that their own lives would shortly end, and that they were free to do anything they wanted and inflict any pain," casually strangled a Chinese man to pass the time. For weeks in 1945, until the U.S. troops showed up, Ballard was not sure the war was really over. "To this day as I doze in an armchair," he writes, "I feel the same brief moment of uncertainty...
...wonky statistics and programs - as Hillary Clinton is wont to do - may make for good sound bites and debate repartee, but it signifies neither a mastery of substance nor good judgment. Clinton's judgment has proved wanting in her disastrous vote to authorize war in Iraq, her failure to pass health-care reform when she and Bill had the chance and many other important issues. I'm old enough to remember a similar style-vs.-substance debate about President John F. Kennedy. His enduring positive influence proves that he combined style with substance - as does a certain Senator from Illinois...
...Should developing countries get a pass on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the interest of speeding economic growth...
...wrong. When the United Nations Framework on Climate Change - the international treaty that formed the basis for Kyoto - was hammered out in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, no one could have predicted just how rapidly China's economy and energy use would grow. China is, in fact, about to pass the U.S. as the world's top annual carbon emitter, and the bulk of future greenhouse gas emissions (the only kind we can hope to control now) will, in fact, come from the developing world. "Europe and the U.S. could turn out the lights today, and come...
...addition to the plutonium reactor in Yongbyon. President's Bush's former U.N. ambassador, John Bolton, who has become the most virulent public critic of the deal, said: "Even If North Korea and the State Department, working together, can come up with [a declaration] they think will pass the public smile test once it is released, we still need to verify the accuracy and completeness of the declaration. Here is where State has failed most obviously: There has yet to be, 12 months after the Feb. 13 agreement, even a hint of what specific mechanisms will verify a declaration...