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...human rights of North Koreans should be "a key element in future negotiations." Diplomats participating in the six-nation talks?which include South Korea and China, a Pyongyang ally?have so far been careful not to link human rights to disarmament, because North Korea's representatives would probably storm out. Nevertheless, some American politicians find the U.S. bargaining position increasingly unconscionable. "Are we prepared to tell the North Korean people to give up their dreams of freedom because, in the interest of the status quo, we are willing to make a deal with their slave masters in Pyongyang?" asks Senator...
That may have encouraged the sides to step back for a moment from a climactic confrontation. But al-Sadr has a proven track record of standing up to the U.S. by exploiting American reluctance to storm a holy place. "The shrine," says British Major General Andrew Graham, deputy commander of the Multinational Corps-Iraq, "is an invisible shield. He's picked a battlefield where he knows we won't go." That is why both sides have repeated the pattern of go-no-go set in Fallujah. "Tell me," says Graham, "what are the alternatives?" --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton, Brian...
Hurricane Charley ripped, helter-skelter, through Florida and up the East Coast last week, leaving bitter lessons in its path. First, there was the reminder that hurricanes are devilishly hard to predict. Last year, meteorologists at Miami's National Hurricane Center demonstrated remarkable accuracy with their storm-landing forecasts. But on Friday, after a million people were ordered to evacuate the Tampa area, Charley slammed into the shoreline 100 miles to the south instead. The 145-m.p.h. winds twisted aluminum siding as if it were gift ribbon and snapped 100-year-old pine trees. Then, as people raced inland...
...awaiting trial on fraud charges they deny. Deloitte says Parmalat itself was responsible for any fraud. Bondi is betting that after the Enron debacle, which brought down Arthur Andersen, it'll be hard for the auditors to persuade courts that they were deceived. - By Peter Gumbel Calm After The Storm In the first loss estimate based on insurance claims, the U.S. Insurance Information Institute put the cost of Hurricane Charley to insurers at $7.4 billion, and suggested existing premiums could absorb the storm's impact...
Allen, then, has been much married. To Anthony Hopkins' Nixon in Nixon. To Daniel Day-Lewis' John Proctor in The Crucible. To Kevin Kline's cheating spouse in The Ice Storm, to John Travolta's FBI agent in Face/Off and to William H. Macy's George in Pleasantville. Not the worst husbands in the world, but, sheesh, enough. Allen would never say "sheesh," but she put her foot down. "More than anything, I felt like the vein had collapsed--like if you were a junkie," she says of the spousal roles. "There's no more to give...