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...operate within Palestinian territory, he is actively willing to pursue a policy of violence on his own. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has repeatedly proclaimed his unwillingness to negotiate with terrorists. Unfortunately for Arafat and for the Palestinian cause, there now seems to be very little possibility of any thaw in relations between Sharon...
...extent of the thaw in that relationship over the past decade is unclear...
...Last week, while Kim Jong Nam was being detained in Japan, his father was toasting representatives of the European Commission who were on a rare visiting diplomatic mission. He used the occasion to commit to the country's moratorium on missile tests, signaling hope for renewed talks to thaw relations between the two Koreas. But just as the rest of the world was beginning to move beyond its conception of North Korea as a wacky, dysfunctional regime, along comes the son of the leader, using a fake passport to go sightseeing. Memo to the world: there is nothing normal about...
...should denounce all these equivocal statements we made to spring them," a senior Navy officer griped. "And then we should bomb the damn plane on the tarmac." The White House saw that it was also still dealing with competing constituencies on the Chinese end. After 48 hours of thaw, Vice Premier Qian Qichen declared Saturday that the expressions of regret were "still unacceptable." The U.S., he said, must "apologize to the Chinese people. This is the key issue to solving the problem...
...word sex in an advertisement or a product name. But Shanghai radio sexologist Chen Kai - his business card features a pop-up penis - recently gave on-air advice to a housewife who wanted to know if it was safe to pleasure herself with a frozen cucumber. (Chen's tip: thaw it first.) In backwater Phnom Penh, the ankle-length sarong is starting to get shorter, and sex educators say some 50% of high school boys are having sex with girlfriends, often in fast-sheet hotels charging $1 an hour. At the Rainbow Pub in Hong Kong, where homosexuality was prosecuted...