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Like old-fashioned parents, Washington and Beijing both appear a little anxious about allowing the two Korean Kims to court unchaperoned. Then again, any misplaced remark or gesture could have disastrous consequences when South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung travels to Pyongyang on Monday for two days of talks with North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il - the first ever meeting between the leaders of two states divided not by a border but by a cease-fire line. President Clinton Thursday used the funeral of former Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi as an opportunity for intense huddling with...
...ridiculed his person. Though there is no hard evidence pertaining to this great walk-out, Alexander Williams, chronicler of the Boston clubs, hypothesizes that an impolitic member may have risen and given a toast to John Wilkes Booth. As one of the founders of the Union Club would later remark, “We wanted a place where gentlemen could pass an evening without listening to Copperhead talk...
...told CNN. Again, it was left to Osberg-Braun to modify the charges, saying Juan Miguel had been verbally abusive with his son on the phone (she accused the father of telling Elian his mother was still alive in Cuba, but later conceded that she?d heard no such remark) but that he had been under instruction from "forces in Cuba." Previously, the Miami relatives hadn?t claimed abuse as their reason for demanding custody...
...Central Conference of American Rabbis, the umbrella group of Reform Judaism, used strong language in describing why his organization had made its decision. "Can you imagine the impact on [gays] after so many negative messages from all those religious groups?" he told the Washington Post. Some saw the remark as directed at Catholics - gay rights groups have criticized the pope in recent weeks for his failure to include gays in his mass apology for the church's past sins...
...frequently cuts people off in midsentence, keeping control of the conversation. He earns the loyalty of his staff by giving them broad authority, but he doesn't hesitate to remind even his closest advisers that he's the big dog, something he usually does with a sarcastic remark. While Gore may view few of the people close to him as his true equals, he assumes everyone understands this; Bush rarely misses the chance to bring...