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...President handled calls with friends such as the Presidents of France and Italy, and he spoke twice to President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Powell and his staff handled the trickier negotiations. State Department sources tell TIME that the U.S. has asked Pakistan for use of its ports, the plainest indication that Washington intends a substantial military action against Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan. Sources also tell TIME that the Administration is considering reaching out to both Libya and Iran for assistance, even though both nations have themselves sponsored terrorism in the past. The State Department, working through...
...argue with our choice of Best Novelist or Best Singer, but no one doubts each is a legitimate category. Where the debate gets trickier is whether some categories even merit inclusion, such as Best DJ. We ultimately decided yes, and music critic Chris Farley defends that decision in his story...
...discussions in Sweden, at the semiannual summit between the E.U. and the U.S., were bound to be trickier--and were. On their own territory--Bush was the first sitting U.S. President ever to visit Sweden--the Europeans set the agenda, which consisted mainly of beating up on Bush for his decision to junk the Kyoto accord. Climate change dominated both the formal meeting and the dinner that evening in Goteborg's town hall. Bush, said an Administration official, found the dinner a "long two hours...
...been peddling in recent years. The band members earned their right to be playful with the form by becoming some of the best players around. They learned their tricks from "newgrass" innovators such as Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, then went off in search of even sweeter harmonies and trickier licks. Now success is arriving faster than the Orange Blossom Special. Nickel Creek's video, When You Come Back Down, is in heavy rotation on CMT, and its eponymous debut album cracked the Billboard country Top 20 and earned two Grammy nominations. Says Alison Krauss, herself a former bluegrass prodigy...
...raising the pay of directly-hired employees, the University will gain time to negotiate agreements with other workers, maintaining a degree of control it could lose if the protest goes further. On Wednesday Harvard dining hall workers voted to authorize a strike, suggesting that the situation will become trickier the longer the administration holds out. Furthermore, having held firm for more than two weeks, the administration can negotiate and remain secure in the knowledge that it is not likely to see future sit-ins, from current protesters or others. Having gained a significant change in wage structure, living wage activists...