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...That hardball strategy certainly worked with the Europeans - at least up to a point. Skepticism over the extent of the "rogue nation" threat and concerns that missile defense could spark a new arms race had most of Washington's NATO allies opposed to the scheme before the Bush administration took office. But when the U.S. made it clear it would forge ahead regardless of international opinion, the Europeans were pushed to begin debating not whether, but how a national missile defense system should be deployed. The Bush team clearly believes the same strategy will force the Russians...
...give her pain rather than pleasure in "The Camera My Mother Gave Me" (Knopf; October 10). PW replies, Who cares? "Thin, disappointing...FORECAST: Already the subject of a NYT piece suggesting this ?autopathography? may become the target of a backlash against such transgressive confessions, Kaysen?s slight memoir will spark some controversy, but don?t expect ?Girl, Interrupted?-level sales." Kirkus is more entertained. "Pithy, funny, adventurous, sexy, and eye-opening...Disguised as plain, brown memoir, a voluptuous exploration of sexuality, aging, the failures of modern medicine, attempts at self-knowledge, and the meaning of pain." The book gives...
...excitement—have come from. My only tough week was the first week, when I wrote a few hard-hitting stories about a student who had died in Alabama. When I finally got school officials on the phone, more than a day after I began, I managed to spark their wrath. “Are you a bloodthirsty vampire?” one of them asked. “No, I am not a bloodthirsty vampire,” I replied...
Standing in the way is Putin. Russia, like China--with whom Putin last week signed a treaty of "friendship forever" that aligns them politically against missile defense--charges that the U.S. shield will wreck nuclear stability and spark a new arms race. More practically, Russia is the other party to the ABM treaty. The tests the Pentagon has in mind will violate its terms "within months, not years," says a freshly circulated State Department memo. Officials talk of deployment as early as 2004. That schedule turns the screws on Putin to modify the treaty to suit Washington right away...
...transparency. In Japan, corporations don't have to air all their dirty financial laundry to shareholders, as they do in the U.S.; a money-losing division can be hidden away as a "subsidiary" and assets can be listed at inflated values. A hint of change in that direction could spark a stock-market rally as it did in 1999, when corporations finally began to restructure?the Nikkei soared 36.8% and smaller stocks doubled...