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...Standing beside Powell last week, Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon insisted his government had nothing to hide. "We're handling this in a transparent manner," he said. Officials and lawmakers in Seoul are seething over the international scrutiny, saying their country is the victim of a double standard because their ancient rival Japan is allowed to enrich uranium and separate plutonium to run reactors. "Every nation that pursues the full use of nuclear technology inevitably gets close to weapons technology," says Kim Tae Woo, a nuclear analyst at the government-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. "So what is wrong...
...year. Crucial passes fell incomplete, Clifton Dawson rushed for a mere 69 yards and didn’t score, and field goals outnumbered touchdowns. Promising drives advanced inside Dartmouth territory, then faltered outside the red zone. Seven punts, four of them from inside midfield, pinned Harvard well below its standard scoring output...
...dire, they could be forgiven for caring less about who wins this election than about how he wins and when. A TIME poll finds that 48% of Americans believe that an illegitimate winner may prevail; 56% are ready to abolish the Electoral College. "A certain amount of shenanigans is standard. But it'd be really nice to know who the next President is by Thanksgiving," says Ted Jelen, chairman of the political-science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "I just don't see a gracious concession happening this time. This could get awfully ugly." Especially if institutions...
...double standard at work is obvious. No one expects Hoobastank to speak for all men--just as no one wants to imagine what the band does on its tour bus--but it is also unavoidable. Which makes the success of the Donnas all the more impressive. These four twentysomethings cracked the SNL barrier in 2002 thanks to their major-label debut, Spend the Night, and on their new album, Gold Medal, they flower fully into woman rockerhood, teasing dirty young men with innuendo about sex and power ("Already met your mom and dad/ Said I'm the best...
...market effect has yet to emerge. Dropping prices could make it harder for Mittal to service its estimated debt of $3.2 billion. At the moment, China is devouring raw material, which may cause a nasty glut when the steel pendulum starts to swing back the other way. And, notes Standard & Poor's Trask, "the new steelmaking capacity in China will eventually catch up with the growth in that region." China's steel output reached 192 million tons through September of this year, up more than 20% from 2003. In the long term, that could mean even more Western overcapacity...