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...program to feed 6.2 million people in North Korea, or more than a quarter of the population. Yet in March, North Korea, without explanation, rejected all food aid from the United States, its largest official donor, and kicked five aid groups distributing the food out of the country. The step is potentially disastrous for the North Korean people. The WFP figures that last year's harvest, though slightly improved on 2007's, still fell about a third short of the population's needs. (See pictures of the work done...
...lost to the more conservative opposition party, Union-Pro, he still gets a seat in the Chamber of Deputies because of proportional-voting rules. But Union-Pro leader and billionaire businessman Francisco de Narváez told the Buenos Aires daily La Nación that Kirchner "needs to step aside and let his wife be the nation's President and build some space for consensus." The President, he said, needs to read "these election results well." Other Latin Presidents should...
...DeStefano case before the media learn to ask the right question? Sotomayor, the junior judge on a three-judge panel, did not endorse New Haven's decision to discard the promotion test for a group of firefighters when not enough minority firefighters passed the test. She merely declined to step into the matter--as an activist jurist might have done--to tell New Haven that discarding the test was the wrong thing to do. Those are different actions. If anything, the Ricci case proves that Sotomayor is not an activist jurist. Dale Whiting, CHANDLER, ARIZ...
...service" payment system that awards more fees to doctors and hospitals for providing more services, and the regulated electricity rates that reward utilities for selling more power and building more plants - would not solve all our health-care and energy problems. But it would be a major step in the right direction. President Obama has pledged to pass massive overhauls of both sectors this year, but if Congress lacks the stomach for comprehensive reforms - and these days it's looking like Kate Moss in the stomach department - a more modest effort to realign perverse incentives could take a serious bite...
...been outflanked by Obama, who had managed to get many of Israel's key congressional supporters on board with the White House push against settlements. U.S. officials were widely quoted as telling the Israelis that moving forward on a settlement freeze and peace with the Palestinians was a critical step toward mustering the Arab support Washington needed to pressure Iran. In his Cairo speech, Obama had made clear that America's commitment to Israel's security is absolute, but settlements do nothing to enhance Israel's security, and arguably impede it as long as they obstruct the path to peace...