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...Still, Washington must tread cautiously if it is to avoid scuttling its hard-won dialogue with Pyongyang. Kim has repeatedly shown his willingness to walk away at the slightest provocation. Just this week, while the U.S. was parleying with the North Koreans in New York, similar talks between Japan and the North in Vietnam hit a roadblock. According to Japan's Foreign Ministry, Pyongyang temporarily suspended negotiations after Tokyo demanded that it account for Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s. Considering how tricky talking to the North can be, just achieving the immediate goal...
...tells her counselors to tread gently. You don't need to lie or bully, she says--just listen and love: "We understand completely that this is her decision." The waiting room is not full of baby pictures, she notes, and the counseling room is no place for political debates. "We don't want a zealot in there," she says. "We want someone who's going in there with a heart and compassion who'll talk reasonably and present the options." And, she adds, she would never, ever show graphic pictures or movies like The Silent Scream, the landmark 1984 video...
...year is 2010. Hillary Clinton is in the White House and planning her re-election on a tread-softly foreign policy platform after the debacle of the U.S. attack on Iran's nuke facilities launched in the last throes of President Bush's Administration. Bush himself, holed up on his ranch since 2008, is losing his battle with the bottle. Across the pond, having prolonged his departure from 10 Downing Street to within a few weeks of a general election, Blair resigns and ponders his next role. But on the sidelines, an unlikely campaign to bring the former PM before...
Unlike Lawrence H. Summers, who knew he would be leaving his post as treasury secretary on Jan. 20, 2001, nearly all the candidates under consideration currently hold positions in which their tenures are indefinite, forcing those who are interested to tread the fine line of having a day job while interviewing for another...
Theses are difficult enough for those who tread the beaten path of academese. Relying on her own creativity instead of an annotated bibliography, Cep is writing a novel...