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...President Hu Jintao last week to rein in his irksome neighbor. And in case Kim Jong Il doesn't get the message, the U.S. is rotating Stealth bombers and fighter jets through Guam, where they are within striking distance of North Korea. --By Donald Macintyre. With reporting by Elaine Shannon...
...before U.S. and Pakistani authorities could track them down. When asked how he knew that al-Libbi had been caught, the caller replied, "Because he used to be with us." The U.S. is hoping al-Libbi kept good company. --With reporting by Sayed Talat Hussain/Islamabad, Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar and Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...American employees of the U.S. mission to the U.N. submit their résumés for review. The move cast a chill over the operation, where some saw it as presumptuous. It may also have been premature. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...They couldn't say hello in English, let alone have a conversation," says Gene Sherman, recalling the day Liu ("Shannon, we called him") shepherded brother Ah Xian and friend Guan Wei into her gallery in early 1989. Then on residencies at the University of Tasmania's School of Art, all three would settle permanently in Australia after Tiananmen Square, their causes helped by lobbying from the former cultural attach? to Beijing, Nicholas Jose. But while they exhibited in group shows together in the early '90s, only Guan Wei was picked up by an Australian commercial gallery. As it transpires, going...
...guest at my foreign university, that all the student protest was not directed at the school’s administration, or even at their country’s government, but at mine. Every weekend, residents of my host city Galway would take a two-hour bus ride to Shannon airport to protest its use as a stopover point for U.S. troops. There was anger, palpable anger, everywhere. And this was in Ireland, where everyone has an American cousin...