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...Asian Nations summit last week, appeals were made for the North to participate in talks on its missile and nuclear programs. They were spurned; Pyongyang issued a statement calling U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a "political imbecile." Kim seems willing to defy anyone, even his benefactors in Beijing. Paul Carroll of the Ploughshares Fund, a San Francisco-based foundation working on non-proliferation, was in Pyongyang recently with U.S. scholars, where he met with officials including Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan. After the missile launch, Carroll says, Kim observed: "What I hear is big brothers saying to little...
Back in 2003, Condoleezza Rice, then the National Security Adviser, decided that U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer's plan for getting a government going in Iraq wasn't viable. Without telling Bremer or his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rice went to President George W. Bush after her summer vacation to put the viceroy on a shorter leash. She knew that the President exercised with Bremer when he visited Washington, appreciated his strong Catholic faith and treated him like a Cabinet member. But she drew on her even deeper bond with the President. She soft-pedaled her views of Bremer...
...When Paul Baron first moved to Tokyo from London, he found it hard to keep up with the Japanese capital's prolific art scene. Language barriers and a lack of timely information meant that the recent art-school graduate was always hearing about exhibitions he wanted to see the day after they closed. So Baron teamed up with a couple of friends two years ago and launched tokyoartbeat.com - a bilingual website listing shows at over 500 Tokyo galleries and museums...
...then Guantánamo has more to do with blind revenge and the display of unlimited power than with obtaining justice. The best way for Americans to fix Gitmo would be to close it and return Guantánamo Bay, a remnant of colonial imperialism, to Cuba. Jean-Paul Debattice Brussels...
...apostle Paul put it, may his body then be a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable...