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...rollout was designed to exert maximum pressure on the White House because, despite all the fanfare, the report was aimed at an audience of one--Bush. For most of the week, he looked none too pleased about the round-the-clock talking-to he was getting. As he received the report, he told cameras it was "interesting." Later he said it has "some very good ideas." But within a day, he was putting some distance between himself and the best seller: "I don't think Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton expect us to accept every recommendation...
...HSBA, matching funds from businesses, in order to improve the marketing of Harvard Square and attract more shoppers, according to Power.“We really appreciate that they are around the table and that they bring their expertise and don’t necessarily exert their influence when they could,” Jillson says.“When they come to the table, they come as an equal partner with other community groups. They could be an entity unto themselves, but they choose not to do that.” In the end, Harvard’s Gray...
...China really intends to exert pressure on Pyongyang, Dandong will be the place where the hammer will drop. But there's reason to doubt China's readiness to take further steps toward squeezing North Korea. One reason is self-interest. Trade with the North is vital to border cities like Dandong, which has registered double-digit growth in recent years, according to local government statistics. Much of that is due to its trade with North Korea, which has more than quadrupled since 1999. Others have benefited from doing business with the North: energy and fuels constitute the bulk of China...
...public record anyhow. This argument may have been true as late as 20 years ago, but today we live in a Google world. A campus newspaper and its digital archives are far more accessible than any public record. In fact, to access any public record, one would need to exert a considerable degree of effort—the easiest course of action might be to hire a background-checking service to examine a specific individual at one’s own cost, approximately $50-60 per name. Moreover, a public record of an arrest can be purged, whereas online archives...
...nuclear power and learn to live with an Iranian bomb, focusing its efforts on deterrence rather than pre-emption. The risk is that a nuclear-armed Iran would use its regional primacy to become the dominant foreign power in Iraq, threaten Israel and make it harder for Washington to exert its will in the region. And it could provoke Sunni countries in the region, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to start nuclear programs of their own to contain rising Shi'ite power...