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...Wider recognition of the opportunities of North-South cooperation is a victory for Roh, whose national political career will end when he leaves office next month. (South Korean Presidents under the constitution are limited to one five-year term.) In his first years in office, Roh was derided by many in Washington as an apologist for Kim Jong Il. Now, Bush has all but adopted the "Sunshine Policy" by promising Pyongyang a range of diplomatic and economic blandishments in return for the North's nuclear disarmament. Although Pyongyang missed a Dec. 31 deadline to come clean about the full extent...
...climb that turned out to be particularly steep with women voters. Though Obama beat Clinton among men, she bested him by a wider margin among women (especially unmarried women), who vote in New Hampshire in unusually large numbers. And while Obama did better than Clinton among independents, that swing group of voters did not appear to vote in proportions that many expected - and of those, more than expected seemed to opt for McCain. Clinton prevailed amongst registered Democrats, a trend that could be crucial in many states whose upcoming primaries are closed to independents...
...herself declared the lifetime president and refused to let her brother Mir Murtaza challenge her for its leadership. He was shot dead by police officers while Benazir was Prime Minister; his wife Ghinwa and daughter Fatima believe Benazir was complicit in having him killed. She colluded in wider human-rights abuses. Amnesty International accused her government of having one of the world's worst records of custodial deaths, abductions, killings and torture...
People reached by phone in Eldoret said they were cowering behind locked doors in their homes, terrified of going out on the streets. It was unclear whether the killings would lead to wider clashes. Eldoret saw massive violence in elections in 1992 and 1997 as well. "We cannot move out of the house," said Elijah Ombiru, a father of four in the city. "People are being killed everywhere and the situation is very, very worse...
...Geoffrey Bawa is well known in his native Sri Lanka and in design circles, but wider fame has eluded the architect who died in 2003 at the age of 84. Part of the reason is that the building style Bawa pioneered - melding Asian and global design traditions in a way that suited the requirements of monsoon climates - has become ubiquitous. Verandahs, water features, local craftwork, lush landscaping: today these kinds of elements are taken for granted in resorts, spas and villas all over the region, and it is easy to believe that it was ever thus...