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...Diplomacy Gap Massimo Calabresi's article reads like a State Department press release [Aug. 11]. How is it that when the White House declares a "diplomacy surge," this message is dutifully repeated in the mainstream press yet when Iranian President Mohammed Khatami offered to negotiate all outstanding issues with the U.S. in 2003, the press ignored Iran's diplomatic gestures? Timothy Eddy, PITTSFIELD, MASS...
...intensely secretive domestic intelligence agency. He was contacted "some months ago" by MI5 and asked to help encourage gay men and women to consider careers with the service and set up a network for its existing gay and lesbian employees. The move inspired punning headlines in the British press ("The Guy Who Loved Me") and raised a few eyebrows among older generations, who remember that for many years, gays and lesbians were explicitly barred from working for Britain's intelligence and diplomatic services...
...press conference shortly after Liu pulled out, Liu's coach Sun Haiping, who has mentored the Shanghai-born athlete since he was a child, dissolved into tears. Dabbing his eyes with a tissue, he described how Liu's hamstring and Achilles tendon had caused excruciating pain and how sports hospital staff had tried intensive massage to heal the injuries. But it was of no use. The throbbing, exacerbated by a training session two days before, was so severe that the hurdler was shivering during rehab treatments. Liu was determined to compete unless the pain was "intolerable," said Feng Shuyong, China...
...became a constant refrain as his popularity sank and his once isolated political opponents grew emboldened. He imposed a state of emergency last November, suspending the constitution and sacking the judiciary. Public hostility toward his regime deepened as lawyers were beaten in the streets, political activists detained and the press muzzled...
...Moscow thought the threat of nuclear retaliation would cow Poland into rejecting a controversial U.S. missile shield, it learned otherwise over the weekend, as the Polish press and public rallied around a government decision to endorse the deployment...