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...Jong Il's secretive regime, would get no closer to this supposedly showcase example of economic reform. The government's reluctance to show off anything that smacked of capitalism was symptomatic of an ominous new mood in Pyongyang. Recent baby steps toward reform and greater openness kindled a glimmer of hope that the North could be coaxed out of isolation. Now Kim, perhaps fearful that private enterprise and greater contact with the outside world would undermine his power, seems to have reversed course. Earlier this month, Pyongyang banned sales of grain in the country's recently legalized farmers' markets...
...glimmer of the Nobel Prize has once again dawned on Harvard, almost a decade after a Harvard professor last received the honor—Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday...
...make perfect sense of some of his notes, didn't have infallible recall and didn't know all the legal ramifications of everything that happened. He actually seems to think that he can be a little like the rest of us and still be a reporter. He provided a glimmer of what honest journalism can be. I like it! Frank Kizer Bartlett, Tennessee...
...make perfect sense of some of his notes, didn't have infallible recall and didn't know all the legal ramifications of everything that happened. He actually seems to think that he can be a little like the rest of us and still be a reporter. He provided a glimmer of what honest journalism can be. I like it! Frank Kizer Bartlett, Tennessee, U.S. What stands out most for me is the lengths to which Cooper was willing to go to protect Rove as his source [of information that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA] - just as any great...
...told United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan last week, rejecting the offer. The 49-year-old former Tehran mayor, who has no previous experience in international diplomacy, said he would come up with a nuke initiative of his own, once he had completed his cabinet appointments. That gave a glimmer of hope to some European officials. "Obviously, things haven't moved in the direction we'd all hoped," a French diplomat told TIME, "but all options and possible outcomes remain fully open." U.S. President George W. Bush reacted cautiously, saying "the world is coalescing" against Iran's ambitions, and wouldn...