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...Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says an American who watched the scene through binoculars. "The reality is that they were taking direct aim at people trying to cross the pass." As the mountaineers looked on, the guards allegedly shot dead one Tibetan?later identified by the Washington D.C.-based NGO International Campaign for Tibet as Kelsang Namtso, a 17-year-old Buddhist nun?while the others scattered. Shortly after, Chinese border guards...
...tremendously important. The president appoints each faculty’s dean, serves as Harvard’s chief fundraiser, and sits on the Harvard Corporation, which governs the University and sets broad policy. The president is empowered with a deep pocket of discretionary funds, which he or she can direct toward specific programs. He or she can also push initiatives through leadership and inspiration, as President Summers did with financial aid. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the president chairs all ad hoc tenure committees, and thus holds the keys to every faculty post in the University, regardless of the school?...
...told by his intelligence community that if the North Korean program was not stopped, the existing reactor and two others under construction would produce, within approximately five years, enough plutonium to manufacture 30 nuclear weapons annually. In close consultation with our allies in Seoul and Tokyo, the President authorized direct bilateral negotiations. Sixteen difficult months later, with the U.S. military presence on the Korean peninsula visibly enhanced and the threat of U.N. sanctions looming, the Agreed Framework was concluded. It clearly provided for the immediate freezing of the entire North Korean nuclear program and its eventual dismantlement--as well...
...step locks 180 ft. wide, compared with 110 ft. for the existing locks, and they would have massive water-recycling basins, which preclude the need to dig new reservoirs, which many had feared would displace thousands of farms and homes. The project would create as many as 7,000 direct jobs and more than 40,000 indirect jobs at home. Companies such as Bechtel, ABB and the French contractor Bouygues are expected to bid for the project...
...after the U.N. vote. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to travel to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul to rally support for a vigorous implementation of the sanctions resolution. Russia, China and South Korea will be looking for ways to restart the six-party process - a process they believe requires direct negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea, and a readiness to offer Pyongyang security guarantees if it verifiably disarms. And the the stalemate over North Korea's weapons program will most likely continue...