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...said. But “if they really want to help us...[they should] help us get the resources we need to learn and make a better paper.” In November, Miner staff members had less than a day’s notice to prepare to defend their annual budget at the Council meeting. Michele Martin and Wendy Moore, who were editor-in-chief and business manager of the paper at the time, were each allowed to speak in defense of the budget for four minutes each. “What they suggested was cutting absolutely all salary...
...return for two light-water nuclear-power plants, which are difficult to use to generate fissile material for bombs. Clinton's presidency ended before the power plants could be completed and the projects today are derelict-evidence, in Pyongyang's eyes, of Washington's bad faith. But those who defend the Agreed Framework say all Bush had to do upon taking office was follow through, and several years of dangerous saber rattling in Northeast Asia could have been avoided. Says Graham Allison, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Clinton: "The bad news is that this is four years, eight...
...cold war was quite enough." ROBERT GATES, Secretary of Defense, reacting to comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who blamed U.S. policy for forcing other countries to seek nuclear weapons to defend themselves...
...light-water nuclear power plants, from which it is difficult to generate the fissile material for bombs. Clinton's presidency ended before the power plants could be completed, and the projects today are derelict--evidence, in Pyongyang's eyes, of Washington's bad faith. But those who defend the Agreed Framework say that if Bush had followed through, six years of dangerous saber rattling--not to mention Kim's successful testing of a nuclear device--may have been avoided...
...scrimmages against Sweden, the country that knocked the U.S. from gold-medal contention with a stunning upset in the semifinal round last February in Turin, Italy. Then it’s on to the week-long IIHF World Championship in the Winnipeg area, where the Americans hope to defend their first-ever world title, earned when they outlasted Canada in a shootout in 2005. Before that, the Stars and Stripes had claimed eight straight silvers at worlds. “I want to remind you of an often overlooked fact—we’re the defending world champions...