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...Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation in return for aid, only to revert to belligerence and isolation. But the Bush Administration and experts in Seoul seem to believe things will be different this time. One of the South's foremost North Korea watchers, Koh Yu Hwan of Seoul's Dongguk University, says Kim has "already decided that grand bargain" - nukes for economic aid - "is in his interest." Koh, who met recently with the head of the North's intelligence service, says the country's economy is so shaky that without...
...She’s established herself as probably the foremost historian of the antebellum South in terms of cultural and gender history,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian James M. McPherson...
...been the subject of relentless speculation as to whether he was a terrorist true believer or just a thrill-seeking adventurer who went astray. Yesterday, smiling and looking stocky and confident, Hicks was driven away in a two-car convoy while his lawyer spoke on his behalf: "First and foremost I recognize the full depth of gratitude for getting me home. I will not forget or let you down...
...support it.” Government professor Jeffry A. Frieden echoed Razon’s sentiments. “Members of the university community should be engaged with the surrounding community and in contact with it,” he said. He said he believes that Harvard is foremost a place of higher learning that teaches “students to think carefully and logically about the world and to draw their conclusions about how the world is and how it should be.” “One would hope that if our educational contributions make [students] understand...
...work, consume, even live. There's only one person in the world with both the political power and the moral authority to lead such a drastic transformation: the President of the United States. Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin College and one of the foremost green thinkers in the U.S.: "There has been a leadership failure on this issue. It's been a leadership vacuum...