NEWS ANALYSIS  —  Few Good Choices in Standoff  —  The Bush administration has tried to ignore North Korea, then, reluctantly, to engage it, and then to squeeze its bankers in a manner intended to make the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, personally feel the pinch.  —  Yet none of these steps in the past six years has worked.

Where are 'Star Wars' critics now?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - North Korea's threatening spate of missile launches — including an unsuccessful try with an advanced version of its Taepodong 2 Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that is capable …

A Driven President Faces a World of Crises  —  From deteriorating security in Afghanistan and Somalia to mayhem in the Middle East, confrontation with Iran and eroding relations with Russia, the White House suddenly sees crisis in every direction.  —  North Korea's long-range missile test Tuesday …

A Taliban Past, and a Cloudy Yale Future  —  A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student's financial supporters said yesterday.