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"The long-detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a government official in Myanmar today in the first tangible sign that the generals were responding to outside pressure after crushing a popular uprising last month. Confirming reports from foreign diplomats, state television announced that the meeting had lasted for an hour and 15 minutes at guest house a few minutes’ drive from her home, where she has been held under house arrest for 12 of the past 18 years." (NYTimes)
"The first reviews for Lions for Lambs, the Redford-Cruise-Streep collaboration, are coming in, and they are not good. The movie was a hot ticket at a London film festival this week, but the Times of London derided its 'almost autistic lack of personality.' Variety called it 'talky.' We suspect it costs reviewers some anguish to smite Robert Redford, but in the early going, Lions for Lambs is scoring a weak 40 percent on Rotten Tomatoes." (Slate)
"During a long interview this week in his bookcase-lined East 81st Street home, Mr. Podhoretz, 77, explained the very straightforward proposition he has been proposing to Mr. Giuliani from the start of the campaign: 'The choice before us is either bomb those nuclear facilities or let them get the bomb.'" (Observer)
"Conservative senators and critics of the United Nations are attempting once again to stop the US joining an international treaty on access to the world's waters, despite support for it from the military and George Bush. The UN's Convention of the Law of the Sea, already ratified by more than 150 countries, sets up a system to manage navigation and explore the oceans." (GuardianAmerica)
"The Iowa Democratic Party appears to be joining its Republican counterpart in moving up its caucuses to the earliest date ever. Carrie Giddins, a spokeswoman for the Iowa party, said that party Chairman Scott Brennan will recommend Jan. 3 caucuses when the state central committee discusses dates during a conference call Sunday night." (TheHill)
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