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North Korea Calls for Peace With U.S. in New Year Message
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe North Korean government called for an end to hostile relations with the United States in its annual New Year message, the Times of London reports. The regime's statement said it was committed to a "peace strategy" for the Korean peninsula and to ending the nuclear threats for which it has become infamous. "The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between North Korea and the U.S.," the statement said. Pyongyang added that it hoped to achieve "a lasting peace system" and to make the ...
Partygoers Celebrate New Year in Times Square
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Jan. 1) -- For all those reflecting glumly on the last 10 years of terror attacks, war and recession, Gail Guay has some advice: "Don't look back." The 50-year-old Guay, from Raymond, N.H., was among the hundreds of thousands of revelers who rang in 2010 in a chilly Times Square as the famous Waterford crystal ball dropped at midnight Thursday, marking the end of a difficult decade that many wanted to leave behind. But a sense of starting fresh remained elusive for many, who wondered what sort of legacy would begin on Jan. 1. "Nothing seems to be going well," said John O'Donnell, ...
Revelers Around the World Ring in 2010
By not in system - AOL NewsPARIS (Dec. 31) - Paris jazzed up the Eiffel Tower with a multicolored, disco-style light display as the world basked in New Year's festivities with hopes that 2010 and beyond will bring more peace and prosperity. From fireworks over Sydney's famous bridge to balloons sent aloft in Tokyo, revelers across the globe at least temporarily shelved worries about the future to bid farewell to "The Noughties" - a bitter-tinged nickname for the first decade of the 21st century playing on a term for "zero" and evoking the word naughty. In New York City, hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in ...
Seven Questions for 2010 (and Beyond)
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyI intend to toast the end of this decade with gratitude and a kiss, but a gleam is in my eye for 2010 and beyond. Will we learn from our heroines, heroes, villains and failures? At the start of a new decade, and at the end of a tragic, chaotic and glorious one, life has repositioned us for change. Will we make the most of it?My "wishes" for the years to come are framed as questions laced with hope:1. Will we demand a solid education for every American child? I've talked to kids who attend private and public, suburban and urban schools and have been grieved by gaps in their training. The good ...
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