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...highlights the fragility of ongoing efforts to pacify the North by boosting its parlous economic condition. South Korea's giant conglomerates like Samsung are unlikely to invest significantly until the U.S. removes Pyongyang from its list of state sponsors of terror and also amends its Trading with the Enemy Act, which imposes sanctions on North Korean trade. And billions of dollars, not just from South Korea but also from the U.S., Japan and China, will be needed to bring North Korea into the global economy - assuming, that is, that Kim Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that...
...structural design of the Core is its most significant flaw. The act of requiring a set number of large, mediocre lecture courses degrades—rather than improves—a Harvard education. Options under the Core program are often over-sized (Historical Study A-87, “Madness and Medicine” with an enrollment of 339), obscure (Literature and Arts A-63: Women Writers in Imperial China), or all too few (a total of three Historical Study B courses this semester). Students who will graduate before seeing Gen Ed implemented should not be constrained by this confessedly...
...April 2003 Crimson article published just days after the incident quoted Stefani L. Bell, a classmate of Pring-Wilson, saying at the time that she couldn’t imagine him committing a violent act...
...right have surely tried to use this admirable behavior to attack his conservative credentials, but his refusal to compromise his principles for approval ratings continues to attract voters across the spectrum. Aside from his bipartisan efforts, he has consistently supported plenty of conservative legislation, such as the Gramm-Rudman Act of 1985 that cut spending to reduce the budget deficit, and the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act...
...President Bush prepares to visit Israel for the start of an eight-day tour of the Mideast, Israel has two chief issues on its mind: the Palestinians and Iran. But which one does the country want the American President to act on first? Iran...