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With most of the world focusing on the Danish cartoon controversy, the upset victory by Hamas, and Iran’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea’s celebration of the 64th birthday of its “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il, last week went largely unnoticed. But although many think that the North Korea crisis has passed because all six parties announced last September that they had reached a preliminary agreement, the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is far from settled. No progress has been made in carrying out the agreement...
...more nuclear weapons North Korea can build and the more instable the situation will become. Although the United States faces a whole host of pressing issues, the president and Congress should not forget the threat posed by armed North Korea. For Kim Jong Il’s next birthday, the US should send him an unsolicited birthday present in the form of a brief memo: Comply with the negotiated terms or face consequences...
Assisted by a bevy of soloists and readings of the wunderkind’s letters, the Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO) put on a clumsy, exuberant, and thoroughly enjoyable concert celebrating their namesake’s 250th birthday on Saturday Feb. 24 in Lowell Lecture Hall. Under the creative guidance of Music Director Akiko Fujimoto, the orchestra lacks technical polish across all sections, and has trouble achieving the mountain air clarity that Mozart demands. As the program was stuffed with familiar classics, the technical limitations of the orchestra were on full display. The first movement of the 38th Symphony...
...parties more accountable to, and in service of, its entire constituency; that means, most significantly, that the UC should publicize UC-funded parties on its website. Parties funded by the UC should not, as UC President John S. Haddock ’07 noted, be “private birthday parties,” nor should UC party grant money be distributed for the parties of student clubs. As it stands, there is no mechanism to ensure that parties are properly publicized, open to the student body at large, and unaffiliated with any particular student group. The public listing...
...goal is not to be funding private birthday parties. We want to make this fun accessible to the whole campus,” he says...