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...Tough talk was no substitute for policy, however. As Washington ratcheted up the pressure, so did Pyongyang, a longtime master at playing a weak hand brilliantly. North Korea threw out international inspectors and restarted its weapons program, once again reprocessing plutonium from spent fuel rods. Pyongyang even upped the ante by hinting that it had a uranium-enrichment program paralleling its plutonium one. And it chose to end eight years of a self-imposed moratorium on missile testing on July 4, 2006 - American Independence...
...there are still some issues about the party not being completely open on decisions." "I would have liked to have seen President Carter talk, and I wish that there was more emphasis on issues, as the actual substance—the platform and speeches –were weak on details," Padilla added. Zafran said he was pleased with the choice of Denver as a city, but noted that there were some drawbacks to the selection. "Unfortunately, [Denver] is a bit spread out and doesn't have enough hotel rooms downtown to accommodate all of the participants," Zafran said...
...visited the Lower 9th Ward a couple of months ago with some friends," Williams said. "It is despicable and a shame to see that in the Lower Ninth Ward, an area with predominantly poor African-Americans, there are weak, seven-foot levees...
...veteran E.U. official said the Brussels summit underlined how weak the E.U. is. "It is like the chorus in a Greek tragedy," says Pierre Defraigne, the European Commission's former deputy director-general for trade. "The lesson to be drawn from this is that the E.U. needs its own defense capabilities, and it needs a common purpose on energy...
...have just now completed the month of August, which is the cruelest month for Democrats, the month when Republicans go for the jugular, trotting out arguments - some valid, most scurrilous - that paint their Democratic rivals as weak, élite or unpatriotic. This is a relatively new phenomenon in American politics, the Bush family's gift to the process. Ronald Reagan never staged an ugly August. He attacked his opponents, but on the high ground of policy. His most famous advertising gambit was a balm: "Morning in America," a series of ads filled with gorgeous American images that didn't even...