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...Myers:I'm plenty willing to give George Bush credit for appointing women. Karen Hughes, Condoleeza Rice, Dana Perino...I applaud the president for that, and I'm not quick to applaud him on a lot of fronts. I'm not sure Hillary's argument had great legs anyway. More women is good for women, whether it's Republican or Democratic, not because it makes political sense, but because it makes government better. You shudder to think what his government would have looked like without women...
...calling the Mother Teresa of Baghdad. She's devoted her energies to helping Iraq's internally displaced people, particularly in the Karada district where she lives. She organizes periodic supply convoys to various camps for the displaced. The Iraqi army in the area helps her distribute basics such as rice, tea, sugar, cooking oil and blankets. The supplies come from different nongovernmental organizations, including the Red Cross and Red Crescent and an Iraqi aid group called Hands of Mercy. But aside from logistical support from security forces, Hassan gets no help from the Iraqi government...
...hoping to make a little money. One man cheerfully says he is a pickpocket. For 10,000 rupiah, or about one dollar, the touts offer visitors motorbike tours of the site. One, a laconic, mostly toothless man named Purwanto, says he was a farmer before the mud smothered his rice fields. He now makes extra cash taking tourists to the wreckage of his house, located in the shadow of the levees. Purwanto's village flooded last year when the dikes broke, and, although it hasn't been fully inundated yet, most of the people have demolished their homes for scrap...
...Second, the potential for nuclear proliferation is one of the great dangers of the age, which is why it is so vital that there should be continued pressure on Pyongyang to verifiably dismantle its nuclear facilities. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew from Lee's inaugural to Beijing to reiterate that point to the Chinese authorities. No harm in that, but the real lesson of the past few years is that the Chinese get it. Alarmed by the potentially destabilizing impact of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, Beijing, Pyongyang's old ally, has been deeply engaged...
...proposed reforms will still have to pass through a deeply divided parliament next week. Government members of parliament have told reporters that they feel obligated to do the minimum to accommodate opposition demands, rather than engage in what U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a recent trip to Kenya, called "real" power-sharing. Meanwhile, the opposition parties do not have enough seats in parliament to approve the reforms alone; another coalition of votes would be needed...