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...fire is expected to save them before his own children. So experts on the secretive state were puzzled by reports last week that portraits of the younger Kim had been disappearing from public buildings. A Tokyo-based news agency that monitors North Korean media also reported that the national wire service had dropped the usual Dear Leader honorific it used to refer to Kim. Were these signs that his absolute power was slipping...
...that impulse as "the most dangerous game of international politics I know." In a major foreign policy speech last week, he stressed keeping the Atlantic alliance vibrant, using Britain as a go-between if necessary: "Call it a bridge, a two-lane motorway, a pivot or a damn high wire, our job is to keep our sights firmly on both sides of the Atlantic." But Chirac said bluntly that Blair had received little in return for his loyalty to Bush. Who ends up winning the argument is mostly up to Bush - who is banking...
...week after Harvard took the No. 1 ranking in the country, the Big Green passionately defeated the Crimson in a tight, down-to-the-wire contest...
...Beijing appears to be trying hard not to let ethnic turmoil metastasize. The Chinese press did not report news of the clashes until Monday evening, when a brief item was first released only on the English-language news wire of the official Xinhua News Agency. No mention was made that the conflict was between the Hui and the Han. And in contrast with the internal document circulated to Henan officials, the Xinhua article gave a death toll of only seven. The news black-out may have had as much to do with Beijing's fear of social disorder snowballing into...
...patrol. A few hours later, he told his men to wait for him where they were and started moving down the hill-and he just kept walking, stepping lightly and slowly for three or four hours, feeling his way with his feet so as not to hit a trip wire. As the sun came up the next morning, Jenkins tied an extra white T shirt he had brought with him around the muzzle of his M-14 weapon. Not long after daylight broke, Jenkins saw a North Korean soldier on the other side of a 3-m high fence...