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...stooge," and warned of "catastrophic consequences" due to his new policies. "The North Koreans are asking how hard they have to slap Lee until they push him back on the Sunshine road," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Lee has shown no intention of changing his mind. Kim, Lee's national-strategy secretary, calmly dismisses the North's rhetoric as "not a new phenomenon." In late March, South Korea's representative voted for a U.N. resolution criticizing North Korea's human-rights record, a reversal of Seoul...
...tiny, remote New Zealand (pop. 4.3 million), finding ways to sell more goods overseas is a constant concern. "Exports have basically flatlined for the past 25 years as a share of the economy," says David Skilling, head of think tank The New Zealand Institute. China and New Zealand are both members of the World Trade Organization, but bilateral trade deals are seen as a way to further open export markets. New Zealand would like to follow Australia's lead and sign one with the U.S., but a deal with China is just as pressing. Lopsided tariff barriers - China...
Lake's and Holbrooke's key roles notwithstanding, each Democratic candidate has a deep foreign policy team. Obama's advisers include three former Clinton Administration appointees: Greg Craig, who headed the State Department's in-house think tank from 1997 to '98; Richard Danzig, a former Navy Secretary; and Susan Rice, an expert on terrorism and Africa. Clinton's roster features former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark and Craig's former deputy Lee Feinstein...
...James Brown. Walker shot 81-year-old Fred Knittle singing Coldplay's Fix You with five small cameras at a Massachusetts theater. Because it was both unobtrusive and ubiquitous, Walker's crew was able to capture Knittle's spare, moving performance--accompanied by the hissing of his oxygen tank--with a closeness that would have been impossible using giant film cameras...
Meanwhile, by diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry. The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year. Harvests are being plucked to fuel our cars instead of ourselves. The U.N.'s World Food Program says it needs $500 million in additional funding and supplies, calling the rising costs for food nothing less than a global emergency. Soaring corn prices have sparked tortilla riots in Mexico City, and skyrocketing flour prices have destabilized Pakistan, which wasn...