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...Baghdad district of Sanak is exactly the kind of place Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli and other advocates of more "soft power" in Iraq like to see. Dozens of shops in the commercial area open each day offering everything from farming equipment to plumbing supplies. The daily bustle of trade in business wares on the streets of Sanak suggests the promise of jobs to be had in Iraq, a sense Chiarelli and others say is vital to slowing the bloodshed here...
...Analysts outside Japan warn that Tokyo's inflexibility on the abduction issue is robbing it of any influence over the negotiation process. "Japan has lost the leverage of being able to dangle a $10 billion reparations carrot in front of North Korea," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based North East Asia project director for the International Crisis Group. "The Japanese delegation has been reduced to being spectators at the nuclear talks." For Tokyo, which thought it was finally getting in the game after decades on the diplomatic sidelines, that feeling will be frustratingly familiar...
...DIED. Peter Boyle, 71, actor who created some of show biz's most memorable eccentrics, both comedic and brutal, in films including Taxi Driver (a philosophical cabbie) and The Candidate (a shrewd campaign manager) and on the TV hit Everybody Loves Raymond (the title character's hilariously insensitive dad); of multiple myeloma and heart disease; in New York City. He chose acting after an unhappy stint as a monk and won seven Emmy nominations as Frank Barone on Raymond. His signature was finding vulnerability or humor in flawed characters, as in a masterly scene from the 1974 film Young Frankenstein...
...expression of the alumni were, I think, unanimous that the goals of Larry Summers—or at least articulated by Larry Summers—are definitely what should be done,” says prominent New York real estate investor Peter L. Malkin ’55, whose name adorns the Malkin Athletic Center...
...Peter Morrissey, founder of the company that conducted the survey, said Harvard’s fall in the rankings is worth noting...