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...senior official in the Bush Administration who has worked with Powell for three Presidents in three agencies registers much the same reaction: "I've been struck by how not struck I am by him." A friendly foreign official notes, "It's not useful to sit as silent partner when you have his stature." What people noticed most at the U.N. Conference on Racism that opened last week in Durban, South Africa, was Powell's absence...
...higher profile, which by the zero-sum measurements of Washington implies a lower one for Powell. She has expanded her original role as "traffic cop" to include public explanations of policy, like her speech at the National Press Club two months ago, while great communicator Powell has been strangely silent. Rice, not Powell, went to Moscow to jawbone Russian President Vladimir Putin into dropping the 1972 ABM treaty that is blocking Bush's missile-defense plans...
...senior official in the Bush Administration who has worked with Powell for three Presidents in three agencies registers much the same reaction: "I've been struck by how not struck I am by him." A friendly foreign official notes, "It's not useful to sit as silent partner when you have his stature." What people noticed most at the United Nations Conference on Racism that opened last week in Durban, South Africa, was Powell's absence...
...will not remain silent forever. Inevitably, the Internet will carry rumors that China's big four banks?the Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China?are in trouble. "That's when the revolution will begin," Chang writes. He asks a rhetorical question which, as he sees it, Chinese will have to confront from 2006 on: "Now that you have a choice (will you) keep your money with an insolvent institution or one that can pay you back?" The answer?like most of this book's conclusions?is simple...
...anniversary happens to fall during the holiday of Obon, when the souls of the dead are said to return home. Crowds of mourners scale this mountain on this day every year to remember the disaster. They all fall silent as Diana Yukawa, 15, picks up her violin. She shuts her eyes and plays a tune by the singer Kyu Sakamoto, who also died in the crash. The song topped charts around the world in 1963 (in the U.S., it was called Sukiyaki) and is popular again in Japan thanks to the plaintive rendition Diana plays in sold-out concerts...