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...North Korean nuclear crisis that flared up the following year when the Hermit Kingdom decided to reclaim its place in the headlines from Osama bin Laden by declaring that it had already gone nuclear. Lacking any palatable military options for dealing with Pyongyang but reluctant to accede to its demand for direct talks with Washington, the Bush administration came to rely on six-party talks involving itself, North Korea, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea as the forum to negotiate with Pyongyang. Getting the North Koreans to attend, much less cut a deal, depended heavily on the ability of China...
...China's emergence also fundamentally reshapes global energy markets, having accounted for almost half of the rise in demand over the past four years that looks unlikely to allow oil prices to fall significantly for the foreseeable future. China, currently second only to the U.S. in consumption of oil and related products, is expect to more than double its demand over the next 20 years, inevitably putting it into competition with the U.S. for increasingly scarce supplies in the Middle East and elsewhere. Some of the geopolitical consequences are already clear: China has committed itself to a long-term investment...
...hope that more undergraduates will take advantage of the opportunity to learn from those who come to the Forum, and hold them accountable for their words and actions. The IOP will do its part to make sure that the steady stream of visionaries and leaders never ceases, and demand a civil environment—but it depends on students to create a thriving culture of debate and civil discourse...
...that is why we obsess over sports. It’s why kids across the country spend hours in their driveways, pretending to be Larry Bird or Michael Jordan or LeBron James, counting down the clock and firing buzzer-beater after buzzer-beater until their mothers demand that they come in for dinner. Sports provide us something that we lack in most other realms of our lives—situations in which normal human beings have a chance to become immortal...
Before being able to make a recommendation, the subcommittee on student groups says they would want more information about the way these final clubs work, including specifics of the punch process, finding out how many students are involved and what the demand is, and also whether certain organizations would even accept an offer of recognition, especially if certain modifications of current procedures were required...