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While publicly enthusiastic over the new North-South d?tente, the U.S. is also aware that it has emerged on the initiative of the Koreans themselves, under the tutelage of Beijing. Whereas South Korea has much to gain from rebuilding North Korea's decrepit economy - and its people nurture a deep, emotive desire to reunite the divided peninsula - the U.S. has more immediate concerns, such as stopping the North Korean missile and nuclear programs. Although Washington has committed itself, at South Korea's prodding, to lift many sanctions against North Korea, the U.S. perspective on the new d?tente will be shaped...
...only must the thirtysomething opthalmologist bachelor muster the requisite skill, experience and - inevitably - ruthlessness to navigate the treacherous waters of Syria's domestic politics, he's also got to modernize an economically decrepit state squeezed between the Israel-Turkey alliance and the hostile regime in Iraq, while sustaining an increasingly complex policing role in neighboring Lebanon. "Bashar's key allies will be Iran and Saudi Arabia," says Hamad. "Iran provides the strategic counterweight to Israel, Turkey and the U.S., while Saudi Arabia ensures the flow of financial support from the Gulf States...
...then desert the military force's deeper woes. "Food stamps are only a sound bite," says Joyce Raezer of the National Military Family Association, which fights to improve the lot of military families. "There are a lot more pressing issues." Housing, for example: there are 500,000 old and decrepit military housing units needing repair. McCain's plan to reduce the number of troops on food stamps would cost about $6 million annually. Giving military families and individual troops a decent place to live would cost $1 billion annually. Election year or not, that's no cheap applause line...
...current decrepit condition of the building could pose safety hazards, and Illingworth said if the building is deemed unsafe, students will not be able to use the space until renovations are complete...
...epitomize. Trouble had long been brewing: club members, confined to smaller quarters and deprived of liquor, increasingly scoffed at the prospect of paying high dues and remaining in the club. In the end, the club's trustees agreed to a Harvard buyout, in the hopes of saving the decrepit building. The annual musical review will remain, along with the singing groups that make their homes in the Pudding's 12 Holyoke St. clubhouse, but the outfit will never be the same...