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...shock admission, made in an informal arena, may have been stereotypical Pyongyang disinformation calculated to gain bargaining leverage. The North's envoys "are certainly obnoxious," a senior U.S. State Department official said after the talks ended. But claiming to have joined the nuclear club is a dangerous gambit that could cost Kim the few allies he has - and it's an especially risky tactic to use against the take-no-prisoners Administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Before the week was out, the White House said it would rally its allies to support international economic sanctions against the North...
...know whether to laugh or cry at the photo of an Iraqi boy staring in wonder at the larger-than-life painting of a Barbie doll on a looted wardrobe door in Baghdad [IMAGES OF WAR, April 21]. I thought of 20th century artists who painted to shock (Dali) or promote an ironic view of American commercial icons (Warhol). None hit the mark of image and meaning that this photo does. CHARLIE RICHARDSON Atlanta...
Restrictions such as these have sent shock waves through academic and research communities...
After a week of near constant torture, Nouman recounts, she was taken to al-Rashad hospital on the outskirts of the city. There she had the first of countless sessions of shock treatment. When she was released a month later, Nouman recalls, she felt "like a nightmare was over...
...working-class districts, Nouman gained a certain amount of fame as the crazy woman lawyer who dared to stand up to Uday. Even some of the staff at the mental hospital came to admire her tenacity. "She never stopped speaking against Uday, not even when she was getting shock treatment," says Jabar Rubbaiyeh Lefteh, an ambulance driver at the mental hospital. "She was braver than any man I know...