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...high on their agenda, and afterwards issued a joint statement urging Pyongyang to drop its nuclear weapons program. Last week, Beijing signaled that Kim, who has visited China twice in the last three years, is for the moment persona non grata on the mainland. Asked about reports that a sit-down between Kim and Chinese leaders was imminent, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "There is no such thing." "The idea that China will support North Korea whatever it does is over now," says Victor Cha, an Asia specialist at Georgetown University. Adds Kenneth Lieberthal, a University of Michigan professor...
Hooton believed that all social problems had biological roots and that humans should be bred “for a better stock.” He called for “a sit-down reproductive strike of the busy breeders among the morons, criminals, and social ineffectuals of our population...
...more of the same. A long bumpy drive up the Fuladi Valley to another damaged school. An impromptu visit to a potato farmer, who proudly tells the Colonel his harvest was the best in years. Three more bridges, all of them recently collapsed and needing urgent replacement. A sit-down meeting with an earnest young Hazara who wants to know if the Chiclets can help him start up a computer training center in Bamiyan. (Col. Walker tells him to submit a written request...
...sickroom with typical brazenness ("Sharon, how's your a__hole today?" she jokes. "Oh, much better, thank you!"). Yet you get a stronger feeling than last season that the cameras are on a leash. Nobody cries--though the family mentioned plenty of tearful moments in their recent sit-down with Walters--and MTV stresses that the cancer episode "does not signify a change in tone for the season...
...Vucciria off Via Roma, to an array of elegant European designer shops between Via Libert? and Via R. Settimo. Be aware that the traditional 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. siesta is in effect for most stores. If the hustle for clothes and culture leaves no time for a sit-down lunch, there are two traditional dishes that are worth a taste from street vendors and caf?s: a giant suppli, a rice-filled croquette with sizzled beef and peas, and a pane e panelle sandwich of lightly fried chick-pea flour with freshly squeezed lemon. Ice cream is consistently good...