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  • Formula One in Singapore: A Night at the Races

    Manuela Zoninsein | Sep 29, 2008 09:25 PM
    Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is beaming. The completion of last night's Singapore F-1 broke a bevy of barriers. In a startling upset, former double world champion Fernando Alonso rose from 15th on the starting grid to claim Renault's first win of... More
  • North Korea Won't Be Giving Up Its Nukes

    Christian Caryl | Sep 29, 2008 11:09 AM
    The other day I attended a thought-provoking presentation by Art Brown. Until 2005 Brown worked for the CIA; he spent twenty-five years in the agency as an East Asia expert until resigning out of dissatisfaction with the Bush Administration's handling of intelligence about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction. When the journalists here in Tokyo asked him what he thought about the news that North Korea was moving to reactivate its plutonium-processing facility in Yongbyon--the same facility that it shut down with such great fanfare a few months ago--his answer was simple. "North Korea has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons." More
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