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...third round of talks on North Korea's nuclear program ended inconclusively in Beijing on Saturday, this diplomatic soap opera was beginning to look like a tired re-run. The latest episode was not without a dramatic plot twist: chief U.S. negotiator James Kelly proposed a plan under which North Korea would dismantle its nuclear weapons in phases in return for massive aid and a provisional guarantee that the U.S. would not attack. But the denouement seemed utterly predictable: the North was in no hurry to bite, vowing to study the proposal in due time, and both sides came away...
...Birds tells of the pretty, fictional Turkish coastal town of Telmessos during and after World War I. Greeks and Turks live harmoniously there until 1923, when aggressive expansionism and horrific fighting between the two nations culminates in a population exchange - Turks deported to Turkey, Greeks to Greece. The main plot, such as it is, is the violent sundering of these people, who had considered themselves simply Ottomans, into two fiercely nationalistic camps. So far, so good. But Birds Without Wings never really takes off from there, partly due to a dizzying flock of principal characters, many with no personal relationships...
...before talking about it. Cities are that way too: no matter what James says, they can’t be “completed” by readers or writers, and even if they could by some feat, you’d be hard pressed to recount the plot line. I’ve always loved the end of Poe’s short story “The Man of the Crowd,” in which the narrator follows a mysterious chap through the bustling, contradictory streets of London: “it does not permit itself...
...9/11 PLOT: Bin Laden's dream: 10 planes and a nuclear target...
...Saudi monarchy, and Libyan officials claim that the Saudis are funding Libyan opposition groups. A Libyan source close to Gaddafi says, "Those groups tried to kill the leader twice," and adds that Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan in Saudi custody as a suspect in the alleged plot against Abdullah, was merely financing Saudi reformers. The source says the accusations are part of a Saudi smear campaign against Saudi dissidents. For their part, fumes a well-placed Saudi source, "we are fed up with these people. It is better for us to be rid of this regime." Whatever the truth...