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...outside world - has never been able to get it through its head that Kim Jong Il, as head of the North Korean regime, is simply interested in his obstreperous hold on power. Period. He doesn't give a whit about economic reform because it might come back and bite him - he watched democracy come to an increasingly prosperous South Korea, after all - and now will backtrack, delay and obfuscate until he finds an excuse to get out of the current nuclear deal. All the while, the skeptics believe, he will probably continue a separate secret program to enrich uranium...
That's homeownership in a nutshell: the dream of wealth, self-reinvention and security, combined with the faintest fear that something in your backyard may just come back to bite you. Welcome home, America...
...question that's not answered-and probably not answerable-by either the video or the scientists is how well the beaten-up baby fared after the cameras stopped rolling. Certainly the right bite to the neck would have caused the baby to bleed out fast-which did not appear to happen-and the right hold on its hind legs would have broken them, making it impossible for him to trot back to the herd as he did. Buffalo hide is tough, and perhaps this baby was even tougher and scrappier than most-or perhaps the crocs and lions simply...
...included in the end product. As representatives of their disciplines, and not of the entire College and its students, they broadened proposals to include their own fields and courses. The cumulative effect was one of meaningless proposals, stretched to the point where they lacked any ideological or intellectual bite. The prime example is the November 2005 report, which resembled, in its inclusion of every course across all departments, a terrible piece of pork barrel legislation rather than a meaningful attempt at casting undergraduate education. Thanks to the enormous political clout professors had won from Summers’ downfall, neither...
Sometimes it’s the underdog that has the most bite. Starting the season with an 0-3 record for the first time since the 1951-52 campaign, the Harvard men’s hockey team looked like no match for the Eagles. Then-No. 3 Boston College, which would continue on to the NCAA finals, was the clear favorite over the 16th-ranked Crimson. “We had a pretty bad start to the year,” senior Kevin Du said. “We really wanted to turn the ship around and have a good...