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...Washington gives Moscow to comply. The U.S. says Bush is merely demonstrating a "certain clarity and a certain decisiveness," but the focus on differences may make it harder to bridge them. And Bush aides say that while he isn't trying to trash the relationship, he does intend to strip Russia of the special status it enjoyed under Clinton, and treat it just like any other country...
...Meccas as Las Vegas and Disneyland, and engendered a cornucopia of brand-name goods and futuristic gadgets. The widespread use of plastics created sleek, brightly colored designs for even the most banal household items - from can-openers and telephones to stereos and TVs - while supermarkets, outsized billboards and suburban strip malls came to dominate the U.S. landscape...
...What the summit demonstrated is that things would be going better for Iraq if it wasn't for Saddam. True, he has been getting richer, thanks to snowballing illegal trade across Iraq's borders with Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iran. The intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is another godsend. With ever louder public demands for an end to Iraqi suffering, Arab states are violating a ban on commercial air travel with regular flights to Baghdad...
...just concluded a public inquiry into allegations of police misconduct last November at an anti-government demonstration. During the inquiry, commissioners heard lengthy reports of misconduct?unprovoked violence, unnecessarily long detention of arrested protestors and deliberate humiliation of prisoners. One woman gave evidence that she was forced to strip naked and subjected to a body cavity search...
...illustrate, we'll take the last group--just for the sake of argument, you understand. If I wanted to set about offending Harvard Asians (not that anyone would, mind you), I might draw a comic strip that contained an Asian-American character who happened to go to Harvard. We'll call him, er, "Mr. Wu." And then I might refuse to make this "Mr. Wu" perfect--I'd give him a flaw or two, like pronounced flatulence or a fondness for reading Foucault and Derrida in his spare time...