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...true that Colin Powell was allowed to be diplomatic at the U.N. last fall, negotiating a unanimous vote on Security Council Resolution 1441, but that was an exception. Powell's bolder attempts at diplomacy - the attempt to negotiate with North Korea in 2001 and with Yasser Arafat in 2002 - have been thwarted by the White House. Arrogance has filled the vacuum. Significant allies like Turkey are bullied or bribed, or both; they are not consulted and not listened to. Even when the President says he wants to achieve a diplomatic solution, as in North Korea, he does so undiplomatically, against...
...themes like money worries, infidelity and evil mothers-in-law. He tells his story well?even if we have heard it before. The book's title is a cosmic joke on its sad-sack protagonist. Middle-aged Ramchandra is far from a guru of love, or much of anything except for mathematics, which he teaches at a grubby Kathmandu school and to private students desperate to pass college-entrance exams. It's through these extra tutoring sessions that Ramchandra hopes to scrounge together enough rupees to move his family?his patient wife, Goma, and their two children?from their cramped...
University President Lawrence H. Summers has offered to fund all of Springfest this year except for a band, leaving the council the option of footing the bill for music...
...Gabrielse team, which goes by the name of Antihydrogen Trapment Collaboration (ATRAP), was able to create an atom of anti-hydrogen, the anti-matter counterpart of hydrogen, by joining an antiproton, the counterpart of a proton, and a positron, the counterpart of an electron. Except for their charges, both the anti-proton and the positron are identical in nearly all respects to their antimatter counterparts...
...rest of the lineup is still undetermined, except that junior Trey Hendricks is penciled in on Monday for the sixth game of the weekend against Lehigh. In between Harvard will face Valparaiso (2-3) and Indiana Purdue-Ft. Wayne (1-2) on Sunday and Bucknell in the morning on Monday...