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...From his own experience, Putin should have known better: Back in 2000, the Russian president had told a G-8 summit in Japan that he had convinced North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to abandon his missile program. Sounded good, until Kim explained he was joking. This time, Putin seems to be the butt of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's practical joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Putin Hopes to Gain from Iran | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...Albany to finish the non-league slate with an 8-5 mark. The eight non-conference wins were tied for the most in the Sullivan era. But a brutal road trip, which brought two difficult and costly losses, has brought the Crimson within a game of having to abandon its current “best chance” and look to the future. Which brings us to this very weekend. A single loss could spell the end of Ivy title dreams for seniors Matt Stehle, Michael Beal and Zach Martin. A sweep would put Harvard right back in the race...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Gasp for Best Chance | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

...half-century, the strategy of putting money into science guaranteed that the U.S. would lead the world by just about every measure of scientific and technological prowess. So, what changed? American business, for one thing. Competitive pressure and the need to prop up stock prices forced many companies to abandon research and focus mostly on short-term product development. Freewheeling corporate research labs that didn't contribute visibly to the bottom line--AT&T's Bell Labs, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center--have been restructured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Losing Our Edge? | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...going to make all the decisions and they will find they've painted themselves into a corner. Hamas leaders have been very smart politically so far; that's why they are where they are. The obligations of governing may force Hamas finally to come to grips with reality and abandon this dream that Israel is somehow going to be eliminated and disappear from the face of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Opinions on Hamas' Victory | 1/31/2006 | See Source »

...payments "for protection," but the report speculates that its share of the profits may amount to $80 million to $160 million a year. That would be quite a windfall at a time when the North's economy is reeling and the U.S. is trying to pressure Kim to abandon his nuclear-weapons program by cracking down on his regime's income from business exploits as diverse as trafficking drugs and counterfeiting $100 bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kim's Bad Habit | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

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