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...panoramic view of Central Park and the New York City skyline at this 5-star hotel, which opened two weeks ago. Luxuries include silk-padded walls, hand-crafted oriental rugs, onyx bathrooms and a top-of-the-line entertainment system with a room all to itself. HONG KONG PENINSULA Designed to CIA and MI5 security specifications - which require it to be sandwiched between two floors of guest rooms - this suite is truly fit for a President. The perks include a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce, private elevator to the helicopter pad and a security post outside the room. A snip...
...nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula has hung over the U.S. ever since Bush declared his "skepticism" about the regime. "I loathe Kim Jong Il," he told author Bob Woodward. "I've got a visceral reaction to this guy because he is starving his people." Bush said that, unlike the Clinton Administration, his would not submit to Kim's nuclear blackmail by rewarding the obdurate nation for abandoning its illicit ambitions. For the next 18 months, North Korea was pretty much ignored...
...parents told me the heat is unbearable and when they open the windows, there’s ash everywhere,” said Stephanie H. Lee ’07, whose home is located in Palos Verdes Peninsula...
...Cheney and other hawkish elements in the administration when the presidential entourage returns to Washington. And the initiative will mean little if North Korea goes ahead and tests a weapon in the comings weeks or months. But for now, the U.S. response to the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is following more familiar Cold War doctrines of containment, deterrence and engagement, rather than the "preemption" doctrine that got its first real-world outing in Iraq...
...north and west of Baghdad, including Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Instead, Iraqi fighters loyal to Saddam left Baghdad and went home, where, motivated by nationalism and tribal loyalties, they could regroup and plan attacks on American forces. It was not until June--in Operations Desert Scorpion and Peninsula Strike--that the fight was taken to them. One battle, for the town of Dululiyah, north of Baghdad, involved 4,000 U.S. soldiers...