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News of the arrest was greeted with giddiness at the White House, which crammed the formal announcement of Hambali's capture into President Bush's Thursday address to troops who had recently returned from Iraq. "He is no longer a problem," Bush said. The President didn't know just how relieved he should be. On Saturday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Hambali had been plotting new terrorist attacks, possibly in October, when Bush and others would be attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Bangkok...
...fear of the fallout, Seoul's favored unification formula is a glacial process of investment and economic exchanges that slowly develop the North's economy, leading to peace, then a common constitution and parliament, and ultimately formal unification. Even if the Kim regime suddenly collapses, the think tankers favor installing an interim government in Pyongyang until the North can catch up economically...
...Acme Novelty Date Book" (Drawn & Quarterly; 208 pp.; $39.95). The first collects the author's published works from the early 1990s, while he was still a student. The "Date Book" contains excerpts from the artist's sketchbooks kept between 1986 and 1995. While the hyper-self-conscious formal works use comix as a complex exploration of such fundamental human experiences as loss, loneliness and love, the sketchbooks offer a tantalizing enrichment of the author's themes through his un-self-conscious doodles...
After the trial, he recalled the humdrum means he had used to cope with an approaching court date: Okhotin, who once undertook a 27-day hunger strike in defiance of his detention without formal charges, said he spent much of July buried in books, including a Victor Hugo novel and texts on the study of German, Hebrew and Latin...
...solution among the four additional parties attending the Beijing talks is a comprehensive deal that guarantees the dismantling of the North's nuclear program in exchange for guarantees that North Korea won't be attacked by the U.S. Pyongyang is insisting that this come in the form of a formal non-aggression pact with Washington, but that's a non-starter for the Bush Administration, not least because it would require Senate ratification. Instead, the U.S. may offer some written guarantee that falls short of treaty status, and indications from Moscow are that Russia and China may be willing...