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...following the nuclear test in the autumn of 2006, the upper hand in the Bush Administration appears to be held by the pragmatists who believe that there is still a grand bargain to be struck with Pyongyang. They believe, despite the fact that the two sides have staked out such sharply different positions on the terms under which North Korea would dismantle its weapons, that the North seeks a deal. "The economic benefits for them are just too much to pass up; a deal is there to be had," says one Western diplomat. Kim Jong-il is the only...
...idea sometimes starts out small. In 1974, after earning his Ph.D. in the U.S., Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics at Bangladesh's Chittagong University. When a deadly famine struck the country, Yunus, eager to lend a helping hand, paid off the money owed to loan sharks by a group of impoverished villagers struggling to survive; they should repay him, he said, "when they could." Eventually they did, but that was not the most significant aspect of the episode. While the total sum was only about $27, that a stranger would trust them with his cash gave the villagers an appreciation...
...volunteer, Luke M. Messac ’08 puts it, “I first started volunteering because seeing homeless people everywhere just really struck me. We are the richest non-profit organization aside from the Catholic Church, and it is extremely troubling to me that such poverty exists right next door...
...guessing, but I expect that Lizzie Bolden's family was able to let go, because she lived a great, long life, she finished her race, and for the last couple of years had mainly slept. When I sat with my father as he lay dying at 83, I was struck by how lucky he was, how lucky we all were, that he too had lived a good life and seemed entirely at peace. He had been watching his granddaughter play soccer in the sunshine just two weeks before, and then came home, and his family gathered, he fell asleep...
...Game to flashy game-changers including Pulp Fiction and the $300 million-grossing Chicago, the Weinsteins proved smart little pictures (as well as smart big ones) could find a wide audience if promoted properly. After leaving longtime corporate parent The Walt Disney Co. last year, the provocative pair have struck out on their own once more with a new boutique media concern simply called The Weinstein Company. TIME?s Jeffrey Ressner spoke to the brothers about their year-old enterprise...