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...Robert Einhorn, who spent nearly three decades at the State Department working on the North Korean nuclear issue, argues that at this point, quiet diplomacy, through China, is the Bush Administration's only option. "The North Koreans don't seem to realize that it is not in their interest to keep undermining and embarrassing those in the Bush Administration who want to find a negotiated solution," says Einhorn, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "In for a penny, in for a pound. The Administration has no choice at this stage but to be patient...
There was another kind of uproar in Philadelphia in November when Thomas Jefferson University announced it was going to sell--for $68 million--one of the touchstones of 19th century American painting, The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, who spent nearly all of his turbulent career in Philadelphia. It didn't help that one of the buyers was Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who wanted it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which she's bankrolling in Bentonville, Ark. This would be the same Alice Walton who paid the New York Public Library about $35 million two years...
...unlike “Ant Farm”—a compilation of his best pieces over the last five years, some of which were first published in the Lampoon—he only has one year to complete it.As for the rest of his time spent at Harvard and away from the ‘Poon, Rich—who concentrated in English—enthusiastically admits that he loved his time and classes here.“I took a lot of religion classes at Harvard. I love it. They were my favorite classes...
...most intriguing revelation in the 2,400 pages is troubling but hardly criminal. In a spreadsheet analysis of the professional qualifications of all U.S. attorneys drawn up by DOJ staffers, there are sections for both prosecutorial and political experience. The latter category is broken down into columns showing time spent at the Justice Department, on the Hill, in political campaigns and government staff. The last column indicates whether or not the U.S. attorney is a member of the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society...
...allow the U.S. to spend $43 million beefing up Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. She countered Congressional concerns over aid reaching terrorists now that Abbas has bucked the U.S. by joining with Hamas in a national unity government, pointing out that the money would be spent on securing borders into Gaza and strengthening the Palestinian security force responsible for stopping weapons being smuggled into the territory...