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...Seamus Heaney. Courses are also taught by members of other departments who have extensive experience in their field. This year Marcus Stern, associate director of the American Repertory Theater, is teaching a screenwriting workshop.The renowned director has found teaching creative writing courses Harvard to be both rewarding and challenging, albeit markedly different from the theater courses he teaches. “It’s a more expansive and in-depth evaluation of their work on a weekly basis because in theater, the first time I’ll see it is in class,” Stern says...
Still, numbers are rising, albeit slowly, and the glowing accolades of returning students may begin to convince others that international experience is a sacrifice worth making...
...dictator Kim Jong Il has repeatedly made and then reneged on such accords. But for the Bush Administration, whose officials had once speculated openly about the possibility of forcing Kim from power by cutting off his regime from aid and trade, the agreement signed on Tuesday represented a victory-albeit a small one. Now, the immediate question it faces is simple: Have the U.S. and its four negotiating partners-South Korea, China, Russia and Japan-laid a solid foundation for a lasting deal on North Korea's nukes, or is this agreement, as one former U.S. negotiator puts it, "just...
...agreement is also silent-ominously so, critics believe-on the subject of the North's existing nuclear weapons. The question of whether Pyongyang has them is no longer a matter of conjecture: last October the North tested a nuclear weapon (albeit with mixed success), dramatically raising the stakes in the standoff with the U.S. and its allies. The fact that Kim's existing nuclear stockpile is not mentioned in the latest agreement "is probably not an oversight," says Gary Samore, who was head of the counterproliferation program at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) under Clinton. "That's an indication...
...agreement is also silent on the subject of the nuclear weapons the North already has. The existence of that arsenal was confirmed last October, when the North said it had tested a nuclear weapon (albeit with mixed success). The fact that Kim's stockpile is not mentioned in the latest agreement "is probably not an oversight," says Gary Samore, who was head of the counterproliferation program at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) under Clinton. "That's an indication that the North Koreans are not going to be willing to give up their existing capabilities...