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...looks as if Pyongyang's shakedown artists have judged their international market correctly. Western and Asian diplomats are whipping out their calculators to figure the new price for postponing a North Korean nuclear breakout. Last week, Beijing lauded North Korea's "further willingness" to "stop nuclear activities"; in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed the offer as "a positive step" that "will allow us to move more rapidly toward the six-party framework talks." Lost in this feel-good chorus was any apparent recollection of the original objective of talks with the North: namely, to hold Pyongyang...
...Businessmen like Rao are faced with immense new opportunities?and familiar obstacles?as India's economy enters a critical period in which it could achieve a China-like breakout or stall once again. India's gross domestic product (GDP) soared 8.4% on an annualized basis in the July-to-September quarter?its best performance in nearly a decade. In the fiscal year ending in March, growth is expected to surpass 7%, making India the second-fastest-growing economy in Asia (after China). The Bombay stock exchange shot up by 73% in 2003, and tens of thousands of Indians joined...
...G.I.s learned fast, but the British continued to regard the Americans as junior partners long after American divisions were teaching their German enemies lessons in mobility and maneuvers. It was the Americans who led the breakout from Normandy. It was American parachutists who seized all their objectives at Nijmegen and Eindhoven while the British parachutists were defeated at Arnheim in the same operation...
...what has turned out to be her breakout season, Harvard women’s hockey goalie Ali Boe had a two-game stretch to remember this past weekend in Duluth, MN against the No. 4 Bulldogs...
...field hockey team was not selected to this year’s NCAA Tournament despite a breakout season in which Harvard’s ranking climbed all the way to No. 15 in the nation in late October...