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...These political leaders would not come to meet you if they didn’t believe you represent constituencies that they must pay attention to,” Wallis claimed. Recent polls support his conclusion. In an August 2005 survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 72 percent of respondents said “issues like poverty and homelessness” are important issues facing the United States, compared to 18 percent who said yes to “issues like abortion and gay marriage.” Similarly, a poll last month by the Center...
...Pope surely expected a different welcome when he made plans to visit Valencia this coming Saturday. Instead of a vibrant and festive city, when he arrives for the World Family Forum in the Mediterranean city he will find a town enveloped in mourning...
...notable, however, was what was missing from the response. After weeks of talk of harsh rhetoric and debate in the media over preemptive military strikes to knock out the test missile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday called for the issue to be discussed by the six-party forum that has since 2002 been negotiating over North Korea's nuclear program. That essentially amounts to a demand that North Korea return to the negotiating table, from which it walked away last November in a dispute over what had been agreed. Plainly, diplomacy remains the only game in to town...
...most observers agree, is a diplomatic pressure play. By reminding the international community that if left untended, North Korea can threaten global security, Pyongyang hopes to force the U.S. to restart talks over its nuclear program on North Korea's own terms. The nations involved in the six-party forum - North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the U.S. - have not met since last November, when discussions broke down over an agreement that would dismantle North Korea's nuclear program in exchange for a range of economic and political incentives. Since then, North Korea has continued to press...
...until the 1990s that Las Vegas figured out that people couldn't gamble 24 hours a day and that despite the house's best efforts, they still had disposable income to spend outside the gaming halls. Gordon was there when blackjack met Louis Vuitton and Cirque du Soleil. His Forum Shops at Caesars Palace were a catalyst for transforming Sin City into Shop City; today those stores are among the top grossing in the country on a dollars-per-sq.-ft. basis...