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...life. His dream, he said, was for visitors to feel as though they had stepped into a painting. Fellow artists believe he succeeded; David Hockney called 18 Folgate Street "stunning," and actors regularly visit to prepare for period dramas. Dennis Severs' House is open for candlelit tours every Monday evening, perhaps the best way to savor this slightly spooky experience, and on alternate Sundays. www.dennissevershouse.co.uk
...people were victimized last week by the highest-profile school shooting since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. They elected not to participate because they stay out of public affairs, an Administration official said. Other recent school shootings terrorized pupils in Wisconsin and Colorado. On Monday, as officials were making final preparations for the conference, a 13-year-old in a trench coat shot an assault rifle into the ceiling of his Missouri middle school...
...called Washington's bluff. President Bush had long warned that the U.S. will not "tolerate" a nuclear-armed North Korea, and just last week his chief negotiator with the hermit regime, Christopher Hill, warned that Pyongyang would have to choose between having nuclear weapons and having a future. Monday morning's announced test suggests that Kim Jong-il has decided to test Washington's "or else...
Leave it to Kim Jong Il to try to spoil a party he wasn't invited to. The reclusive North Korean leader's decision to test a nuclear device Monday morning may well have been timed to disrupt two landmark summit meetings between new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts in Beijing and Seoul. The test reportedly occurred as Abe was flying over the Korean peninsula, on his way from Beijing, where he spent Sunday, to Seoul. Yet in the short term, Pyongyang's provocation may have actually served to smooth the summits, giving the three estranged countries...
...press conference in Seoul Monday evening, Abe said that the tests had dominated his talks with President Roh Muh Hyun of South Korea, and told reporters: "It is a serious threat not only for Japan, South Korea and neighboring countries' regional security, but also a threat to international peace." That's the case as well for China and Japan, normally wary rivals at best. "A nuclear test brings China and Japan closer together tactically," says Malcolm Cook, program director for Asia and the Pacific at the Lowy Institute of International Studies in Sydney. "I don't think too much else...