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...allies to the starving communist nation, North Korea upped the stakes: This week Pyongyang announced that it planned to restart a nuclear power plant closed down under the 1994 agreement because it was producing weapons-grade plutonium. Although they said the move was necessitated by the cutoff of fuel supplies, the North Koreans' implied threat was underscored when they demanded that the International Atomic Energy Agency withdraw monitoring equipment from the plant used to help determine if a power plant is engaged simply in energy production or producing extra plutonium for weapons...
...EPC’s report also explicitly criticized the oft-proposed solution of raising the GPA cutoff for honors...
According to the report, raising the cutoff would “discourage ‘average’ students from attempting a more challenging program...and may simply increase the pressure [on professors] to give magna-level grades and thesis readings...
Councillors plan to focus on Cambridge residents who currently have incomes just above the cutoff for affordable housing assistance. They talked about beginning a homeowners’ assistance program that would help people afford taking out mortgages on homes...
...mile, Harvard was led by junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman, who was coming off his standout performance at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational the week before. After posting a time just one second slower than the NCAA provisional qualifying cutoff at the Notre Dame meet, McLean-Foreman turned in a slightly disappointing performance of 4:12.39, and was given some competition by Yale runner Robert Dwyer’s late surge...