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...article, The Unimpressive Record of Atomic Diplomacy, McGeorge Bundy, who was John F. Kennedy's National Security Adviser, takes a somewhat different tack. Arguing that "there is very little evidence that American atomic supremacy was helpful in American diplomacy," Bundy cites Iran in 1946 and Quemoy and Matsu in 1955 and 1958. But he also suggests that atomic diplomacy did not affect the outcome of Korea either. Nixon says otherwise...
While some professors talked of amending the relationship between Summers and the Faculty, Matory took a different tack and said after the meeting that Summers should step down as president...
While some professors talked of amending the relationship between Summers and the Faculty, Matory took a different tack and said that Summers should step down as president...
...Washington's long-standing military alliance with Seoul means it still has some influence with the Roh government, and hashing out a common diplomatic tack on the nuclear issue, while tricky, may be achievable. The bigger problem for the U.S. is likely to be China, which has a history of doing exactly what Bush says he will not do: reward North Korean intransigence. When the nuclear crisis was heating up in the summer of 2003, China's Vice Foreign Minister, Dai Bingguo, visited North Korea to persuade Pyongyang to attend six-party talks. Shortly after Dai returned to Beijing, Pyongyang...
Medium's spirituality is inoffensively generic--the standard apparitions caught between our world and an undefined "other side." (Likewise, CBS's Joan offers a smiling, nondenominational God.) NBC will take a more boldly religious tack later this spring with Revelations (debuts April 13), a six-episode series investigating a sequence of events that suggests the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation is under...