Word: rapports
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...Diplomacy, to be sure, will still figure prominently in reducing the North Korean nuclear threat. But the emphasis will have to be on mending the relationship with Seoul and establishing better rapport with Beijing, North Korea's two main financial backers. The North should be penalized, not rewarded, for its campaign of international nuclear menace. The country is highly vulnerable to economic pressure, and a coordinated strategy could expose its weak points. Would such a strategy be risky? No doubt. But could it really be riskier than a new round of talks...
...urbane comedy. We do jokes about selling CDs out of the trunk of your car, but we've also got jokes about Tucker Carlson." Even more so, this appealingly motormouthed show is a celebration of language--boasting, blathering, put-down and pontification--and the new cast has an easy rapport and naturalness. It doesn't always work: a subplot in which Calvin teaches a Nigerian employee to talk dirty thuds badly. But if the show can build on its verve and verbiage, this Barbershop could become not just a location but a destination...
...first extra-Roman excursion, to the Adriatic port of Bari on May 29, Benedict seemed uncomfortable with the chants of "Be-ne-det-to!" by young Catholics eager to pick up the old "Gio-van-ni Paolo!" tradition. (In subsequent weeks, he even shushed them.) "John Paul built a rapport based on [such] enthusiasm," says a Rome-based Cardinal. "This Holy Father tends to diminish the importance of enthusiasm." While preaching, Karol Wojtyla would wave, gesticulate and repeatedly make the sign of the Cross. Benedict's pulpit style is austere by contrast, which more and more seems a philosophical choice...
Rarely have the inexorable forces of history been so starkly revealed by an exchange between two world leaders. Despite all the public handshakes and smiles, and despite the apparent rapport that emerged between two confident and forceful men last week, they were caught by a stark axiom of the Soviet-American rivalry: neither side can afford to base the security of a nation on trust alone. For 40 years, ever since the earliest days of the cold war, each American President, each Kremlin leader, has felt compelled to counter every move by a countermove, every new weapon with a newer...
What was most significant about the imagery in Geneva last week was not that two men were meeting at the summit--that is, at the peak of personal and national power--but that they were, for nearly five hours, meeting off to one side alone. Their apparent personal rapport, or at least civility and restraint, made the meeting a symbolic success. But on the most important issue confronting them, controlling the arsenals of nuclear weapons, there is no assurance that the "fresh start" and "momentum" they spoke about will actually lead anywhere. Not only was there no resolution...