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TIME: Why are you going to China and South Korea? What have you learned so far about the summit last week between South Korean president Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong...
...that, but for political motives of another kind: differences over the peace process." Israeli political analysts don't buy that, but the spin may be intended for Madeleine Albright ahead of her imminent arrival in the region to nudge Barak and Yasser Arafat into concessions that would allow a summit with President Clinton and the possibility of a valedictory foreign policy triumph. But with a final peace deal on Mr. Clinton's watch looking increasingly remote - Barak and Arafat remain unable to bridge the gulf on key issues such as land and Jerusalem - the White House won't want...
...issues that nobody ever really wanted to talk about. So I think there's progress in that regard. They are really dealing with the hardest issues. The President asked me to go [to the Middle East] to determine whether there's a sufficient basis for going forward with the summit [with Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat] or whether we have to keep working. I'm going to be looking at narrowing the gaps...
...important to have more talks with the South Koreans on the North-South summit. According to the descriptions of this summit, [Kim Jong Il] is quite different from what we thought. Rather than being standoffish or secretive or opaque, he apparently was very jovial and friendly and knowledgeable about various issues in South Korea as well as generally. People were surprised. He enjoyed showing that he was different from what people thought he was. I think that he is reaching out. We are very pleased that the summit took place. So I need to assess it. We're all fascinated...
Fortunately, much of the help they're getting is coming from other men. I caught up with Robert Frank, one of the estimated 1.9 million stay-at-home fathers and the author of The Involved Father, at the third annual National Summit on Fatherhood, sponsored by the Fatherhood Initiative (whew!). Frank says new fathers "tend to think parenting comes naturally to women. Then when they see how hard it can be, they tell themselves that they'll never catch on, so they give up." A good way to avoid this crisis of confidence, he says, is for dads...