And he previously was a superintendent in Charleston, South Carolina and then in Denver, Colorado.

DENVER Patience might be a virtue, but not necessarily when it comes to American foreign policy.

Lakers coach Luke Walton has announced that James will play in Sunday's preseason opener against the Denver Nuggets in San Diego.

It's very successful, and it's helped to prompt eight of the 13 regional malls in Denver have now, or have announced plans to be, retrofitted.

3 people were killed in a shooting at a Wal Mart supermarket on the outskirts of Denver, the capital of Colorado State in the United States,

Next challenge, the Biennial of the Americas in Denver asked, could I represent the 35 nations of the Western hemisphere and their interconnectedness in a sculpture?

Denver, Colo., start up Convercent, which helps companies prevent and detect bad behavior, saw an uptick in interest and activity earlier this year amid Uber's fall into disrepute.

DENVER A senior Russian diplomat, in contrasting North Korea and Iran, once said to me The North Koreans are like neighborhood children with matches. The Iranians are who we really need to worry about.

Even though we're playing for nothing, at least we can be able to toe the rubber knowing that the atmosphere here in Denver with the crowd and the other team would be playing at probably the highest level of any point I would face this year.

DENVER Much has been said about the similarities between the chaos in Syria and the Balkan wars of the 1990 s. But, while the prolonged killing may indeed be reminiscent, the political and diplomatic effort that finally ended the war in Bosnia is hardly in evidence today.

DENVER Among the many arguments that former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević used to make to his interlocutors was that he never incited nationalism among his people. Indeed, his public statements and speeches during those turbulent times were carefully calibrated to avoid any outright exhortation to nationalism.

DENVER Forty years ago, the United States and much of Europe learned difficult lessons about their dangerous addiction to fossil fuels. Following Israel s victory in the Yom Kippur War, the Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced an oil embargo on Israel s supporters.

DENVER US President Barack Obama was right to forego the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, Indonesia, and focus instead on dealing with the political pathologies of the US Congress. But his decision, while correct, had the effect of reviving an increasingly common refrain in the East Asian region What happened to the pivot ?

DENVER There has been much talk about America s decline in recent years, with the corollary that China will take its place. But, while the United States does indeed face problems that urgently need to be addressed, if China is to rise further, to say nothing of supplanting the US internationally, it must first put its own house in order.

DENVER The United States Constitution, which turned 225 years old last summer, is a remarkable document the provisions of a text written in the eighteenth century continue to guide twenty first century governance. We will be reminded of the implications of that in the coming weeks, as President Barack Obama fills senior positions in his second term administration.

DENVER Insanity, Albert Einstein is reported to have said, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. For those who have long scoffed at the possibility that China might be willing to deal decisively with its pesky North Korean neighbor, the results of US Secretary of State John Kerry s recent visit to Beijing will be all too predictable.

DENVER Meet any Korean of a certain age, and you will learn about barley season, which begins in February and stretches through the cold months of early spring until the first of the winter barley crop is harvested. Few South Koreans remember those straitened months anymore, but for North Koreans, hunger in the countryside during this time of year is very real.

DENVER Twentieth century American statecraft produced Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, Richard Holbrooke, and many others who balanced the power of the United States with its responsibilities to develop key relationships, solve problems, and build international structures. Twenty first century statecraft, we have been told repeatedly, promises to go further and deliver more, for now US diplomats and those of other countries can use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.

I recently participated in a panel discussion of this phenomenon at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Denver. An apparent paradox emerged from the discussion the boom in popular economics comes at a time when the general public seems to have lost faith in professional economists, because almost all of us failed to predict, or even warn of, the current economic crisis, the biggest since the Great Depression.

DENVER Critics of America s Middle East policies are reminiscent of Woody Allen s quip in Annie Hall The food at this place is really terrible...and such small portions. The United States is seen as the culprit behind many of the regions ills, and yet it is accused of not being sufficiently engaged, of leading from behind, of failing to support democracy, of abandoning its friends, and so on.

The 109th Air National Guard flew the most recent shipment of ice back to the coast of Antarctica, where it was boarded onto a freighter, shipped across the tropics to California, unloaded, put on a truck, driven across the desert to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where, as we speak, scientists are now slicing this material up for samples, for analysis, to be distributed to the laboratories around the country and in Europe.

DENVER The so called six party talks the on again, off again international mechanism by which the United States, China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear aspirations are often cited as an example of multilateral diplomacy. In fact, the talks have served as a platform for addressing a host of issues that range far beyond the North Korean nuclear problem, in the process nurturing interlocking, interrelated bilateral relationships in the region.