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NorthKorean dictator Kim Jong Il has clearly shown with the recent nuclear test that bilateral negotiations are meaningless to him. He has made laughingstocks of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, whose administrations engaged in direct talks with North Korea about nuclear proliferation. Kim has also made fools of South Korean Presidents Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun. Who else in the world is going to dream of engaging in bilateral talks with Kim Jong Il again, unless in delusion...
SARDAR FADAVI, Iranian admiral, on U.S.-led naval exercises in the gulf, which were answered by Iran's test-firing of new missiles...
Roman Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists followers of "scientism" or "evolutionism," since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview and a touchstone. It is not an epithet that fits everyone wielding a test tube. But a growing proportion of the profession is experiencing what one major researcher calls "unprecedented outrage" at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on Bush Administration science policy to the fanatic faith of the 9/11 terrorists to intelligent design's ongoing...
...kind of exchange that could have made headlines--WHITE HOUSE DISMISSES NUCLEAR TEST AS NO BIG DEAL--but it didn't. The New York Times referenced the exchange in a longer piece about North Korea, but other than that, the pronouncement went unnoticed. I later asked another reporter why. "Well," the reporter explained, "we've come to understand that when he says stuff like that, he's not representing the White House viewpoint, he's just ... Tony being Tony...
With U.N.-approved sanctions strangling its already weak economy following an Oct. 9 nuke test, North Korea agreed to resume six-nation talks on disarmament, possibly as early as this month...