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...moment of truth of sorts will arrive soon enough: if Kim verifiably shuts down the Yongbyon nuclear reactor - a process that is supposed to begin later this summer - he will, in fact have given up something that the pessimists have always believed has been critical to him: his nuclear card, which in his view has guaranteed his regime's survival in the post-Sept. 11, preemptive world. Give that up, and the optimists will have a reason to smile, even if they are members of the Masochists Club...
...literature, Rorty rejected such traditional analytic questions as, What is the meaning of life? Instead he caused a stir--and irked critics, who called him a "moral relativist"--with books like Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which advocated pragmatism, the view that real-life interactions and consequences define truth and meaning. He was 75 and had pancreatic cancer...
...always be known as the Waldheim Affair, Austria finally got beyond its mythic self-image as the first victim of National Socialism and faced up to its own share of responsibility in Hitler's assault on human values. Waldheim was an ambiguous marker on that road to a broader truth...
...very intelligent man can write a book as probing and prophetic as he did; yet it took way over a decade for his incessant efforts to convince leaders of nations to believe that we are indeed in the middle of an environmental crisis. Thankfully, his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth also generated powerful publicity. But, you Americans around him, please stop goading him to get into politics again. Leave him alone. In one of the pictures, Gore's liquid eyes somehow give me the impression that deep down inside he is sad-probably about the world in general and humanity...
...course, truth, even that which is believed to come from above, does not preclude the need for diplomacy. Private audiences with the Pope, such as the one with Bush, tend to be largely symbolic and often formal affairs, compared with the ongoing substantive talks and collaboration among the full-time diplomats. The meeting itself was an opportunity for Bush to remind America's Catholic voters of their "shared values" with the Pope: from opposition to stem-cell research to anti-poverty efforts in Africa. After meeting the Pope, Bush sat down with the Catholic aid group Communita di Sant'Egidio...