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...office that it was amenable to - it has hit the same notes that the Bush administration did. Only after a verifiable disabling of Pyongyang's nuclear program - in return for economic and energy assistance, both part of the 1994 agreement - would it move on to discussions about "normalizing relations." Diplomatic sources in east Asia say the U.S., in concert with its allies, is now talking about exactly what to put on the table, and in what order, in return for a verifiable halt of the North's nuclear program. For instance, if the North shuts down its production of nuclear...
...Public Interest Careers, the IOP, and OCS plan to jointly hold 14 different events focusing on finding a job in the public sector, said Mount. These resources for Harvard students have not always been so prominent. Nick B. Manske ’09, currently working with the U.S. Diplomatic Service, remembers that during his tenure at Harvard, support and campus recruiting for government sector jobs were less available than similar resources for the private sector, “but it was there if you looked for it.” Manske recalled having to look outside Harvard and contact...
...Michael Simon, associate director of Harvard Hillel, said that his organization often works with the Harvard Bookstore to bring in speakers Hillel could not necessarily attract alone. In the past, the team has co-hosted events for such speakers as writer Michael Chabon and diplomat Dennis Ross. “We have an opportunity to bring in writers who are grappling with the questions of what it means to be Jewish and what it means to be human,” Simon said. “Asking these questions about sexuality is particularly important for our students...
...reality is that a legitimate transfer of power away from Zimbabwe's one and only leader since full independence was never going to be quick. As a Western diplomat in Harare says: "We used to say we want elections. But Tsvangirai says he needs time to build institutions, and he's right. As we've seen in Zimbabwe, elections with the present institutions are no guarantee of change." In 2008, Mugabe unleashed a fresh wave of repression against the MDC after losing a general election, violence that ultimately prolonged his rule. The fervent hope among the MDC's impatient supporters...
...surge of roadside bombings and rocket attacks over the past year have taken the lives of several soldiers and shut down projects. Many aid workers have fled. According to one Western diplomat, construction is increasingly going to unsupervised Afghan contractors who are often forced to pay-off militants not to attack them in the districts they now control or contest. More ominously, police in the area say that among the militant ranks are groups of foreign fighters - mostly from Uzbekistan - seeking to open another front against the coalition and the Kabul government, drawing forces away from fighting the Taliban...