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Some experts suggest that as North Korea's rigid system breaks down around him, Kim is reaching clumsily for reform. Many in South Korea and Japan interpret last week's confession as a clearing of the decks, kicking over the old framework to negotiate a new, more stable one. But others point to Kim's history of trading momentary friendship and empty promises for monetary assistance: he's just giving the world another head fake...
...competitive races whose outcomes will determine which party controls the House, the Pennsylvania 17th has been a magnet for soft money and interest-group ads. Gekas, who has run unopposed in half his House campaigns, says he finds all the attention "very strange." Holden, who voted for campaign-finance reform, says he can't wait for the ban on soft money to kick in. The National Republican Congressional Committee and its Democratic rival have each committed more than $2 million to the race. United Seniors Association, a group subsidized in large part by the pharmaceutical industry, has spent about...
...SUPPORTED SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN-FINANCE-REFORM BILL WHEN MOST OF YOUR REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES SHUNNED...
...spending on the Union's farm subsidies to 1% a year from 2007 to 2013. But the deal, which was cut with British Prime Minister Tony Blair out of the room, may be less than meets the eye. Its details remain hazy, except that it postpones more dramatic agricultural reform long pushed by the U.K. and the Netherlands. U.S. Getting A Resolution The Hard Way For a President routinely labeled unilateralist by his critics outside the U.S., George W. Bush has spent a lot of time trying to reach consensus with the United Nations on Iraq. After six weeks...
...Just winding up his second term in the U.S. Senate, Wellstone was never afraid to take an unpopular position, even while battling for re-election. From opposing President Clinton's welfare reform to recently voting against military action in Iraq, the Minnesota senator's positions were defiantly liberal - and either because of or despite his left-leaning tendencies, he was hugely popular and universally well respected among his constituents and colleagues. Wellstone was best known as a champion of labor, mental health care, veterans' issues and ending domestic violence. He was often frustrated by the moderation of political beliefs, both...