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...plan to meet in Beijing in two months to assess whether both sides have lived up to their initial promises. If they have, Rice says she will meet face to face with her North Korean counterpart for the first time during Bush's presidency. Those meetings could set the stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. The Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korean threat--such as regime change in Pyongyang--has faded. Instead, the U.S. seems willing to pursue a more modest strategy: bargaining away North Korea's nuclear program...
Business interests, of course, play a role. Once the general-election choices are locked in, trial lawyers will have fallen in love with a Democrat, just as oilmen will find true romance with a Republican. But at this early stage, the contest for the support of influential fund raisers and large donors is also a personal one, with allegiances, grudges and gut feelings determining the fate of millions of dollars and eventually shaping the nomination field...
...romantic relationship. But when she discovers that Sheba and her student have kept up their affair, her delicately constructed self-delusion collapses, or rather explodes, taking everyone nearby with it. Director Richard Eyre has an eye for thorny romance: his last film, 2004’s “Stage Beauty,” wrapped Claire Danes and Billy Crudup in questions of gender identity and theatricality in the dying days of male monopoly on the English stage. This story is more conventional, rather like “American Beauty” meets “Blackboard Jungle...
...Gunn, “Project Runway” personality and fashion guru, sits front row center, in a fitted grey pinstripe jacket, surrounded by the who’s who of the fashion scene.Suddenly we are thrown into darkness, and the music stops. Then the lights hit the stage, the music throbs again, and the first model steps down the runway. Our pulses are likewise thrown into a state of hyper-excitement. Heads turn in sync, following each model’s graceful strut down the lit up path. They strike pose after pose for the mound of photographers...
Lowell House became a campanological haven this week as Russian bell ringers, bell makers, and a monk arrived in a new stage of the Lowell Russian bells’ long journey home. The fate of the 17 historic bells, currently on a 77-year hiatus from Moscow’s Danilovsky Monastery, was finally decided in September when a Russian metals mogul offered to pay about $1 million to bring them home and to buy a new set for Lowell. Yesterday, plastic sheeting surrounded the belfry as the Russian experts recorded the bell tones and made moldings of the bells?...