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Although Fowler-Finn noted that Saheed's "honeymoon is over," the superintendent said he was confident that Saheed's support among students and faculty will allow the new principal to push progress forward...
...Qaeda fighters are gradually becoming safer, if only a little. To be sure, Ramadi is still a dangerous place. Insurgents, working with other tribes loyal to them, control much of the territory. U.S. and Iraqi forces come under attack frequently and often suffer casualties. MacFarland is seeing enough progress nonetheless to predict that the city will be under control within a year...
...once those talks resumed, the North Koreans tried to turn the U.S. sanctions strategy on its head, insisting that no progress was possible as long as the U.S. Treasury Department kept in place measures that have frozen North Korean funds in a bank in Macau, in retaliation for alleged counterfeiting activities. It even threatened to raise the stakes with further nuclear tests. Clearly, North Korea believes its nuclear test has strengthened its bargaining position, and it sees South Korea and China resisting U.S. calls for harsher action as signaling the limited options available to Washington; essentially, the outcome will...
...opening bids are in, and somebody is going to have to fold if the high-stakes diplomatic game over North Korea's nuclear weapons is going to produce a result before Christmas: That was the time frame for substantial progress set by U.S. envoy Christopher Hill going in the six-party talks that reconvened in Beijing Monday, after having been stalled for over a year, during which North Korea proved it has some form of nuclear weapon by conducting an underground test...
...Treasury Department measures against banks used by the country in Asia. The financial pain those sanctions cause the regime might give the U.S. a measure of leverage, but only to the extent that they can be used as a chip in pursuit of a grand bargain. For the U.S., progress in the talks requires North Korea's moving quickly to implement some practical steps signaling its readiness to give up nuclear weapons - such as suspending its nuclear fuel production at Yongbon and placing its activities once more under international monitoring. But to do that, North Korea wants...