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...weapons program. Since then, North Korea has pulled out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, kicked out inspectors from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, and boasted openly about refashioning used reactor fuel into bombs. Today, with perhaps as many as eight nuclear devices in the North Korean arsenal, the clock is ticking?the U.S. has said it cannot tolerate a nuclear-tipped North Korea, but it has failed to shut down the bomb factories. At some point the U.S. Administration will have to consider stronger medicine?sanctions, an economic blockade, even a military strike. Says Choi Jin Wook, a North...
...players in the Ivy League and the holder of several Crimson records, Carrington has grown used to waiting his turn to take the field. If Harvard was up by a considerable margin, if the starters were pulled, if Crimson coach Tim Murphy needed someone to reliably run out the clock, then the senior would get his chance. Until then, he waited...
With the game clock located directly behind him, Shula completed a one-yard pass to running back Chris Little out of the backfield in the left flat. But sophomore safety Ryan Tully pounced on Little, driving him to the turf at the 35-yard line. That kept him in bounds—and the clock running. The Big Green, seemingly unaware of how few seconds remained, methodically tried to set up and allow Shula to spike the ball in order to stop the clock and try a field goal. Instead, Shula spiked the ball just after time ran out. After...
...left],” said Shula, who in his first career start completed 19 of 37 passes for 162 yards and a touchdown. “I just tried to get to the line...and we tried to get up on the ball as fast as we could and clock it, but I guess we were just a second too slow...
...just didn’t get it done,” said Murphy of Carrington’s run. “We make it and the game’s over, because they have no timeouts left, and we can just run out the clock...