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...Staff writer Timothy Jackson can be reached at jackson2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Timothy Jackson can be reached at jackson2@fas.harvard.edu...
CONVICTED. ERNEST AVANTS, 72, former Ku Klux Klansman; of the 1966 murder of a black man, Ben Chester White, as part of a plot to lure the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to Natchez, Miss., where Avants and two coconspirators allegedly planned to assassinate the civil rights leader; in Jackson, Miss...
...arguments against Fatal Huggery are obvious. Why encourage and legitimize evildoers? Why allow Kim Jong Il--the Michael Jackson of world leaders--to succeed with nuclear blackmail? Why reward the Iranians for their support of Hizballah? Fair points, all. But there is a problem: the current American policy of nonrecognition isn't working, and it may well be counterproductive. "What's the hardest job for a tin-pot dictator in the information age?" asks Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Keeping his people isolated from the world. Why should we be making life easier for Fidel...
Text by Amanda Bower, with reporting by Meenakshi Ganguly/Baghdad TIME Graphic by Jackson Dykman...