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...would the Hermit Kingdom decide to throw open its doors to foreign cameras? Some experts think it's part of an effort by the regime to soften its image abroad. "The North Koreans are desperate for good publicity," says Aidan Foster-Carter, a Korea scholar at Leeds University in Britain. "Since they're incredibly bad at [p.r.] themselves, it makes sense to have foreigners do it for them." Director Daniel Gordon suggests that the project was authorized by Kim Jong Il himself. "Permission for something like this must have come from the very top," he says. Despite his unprecedented access...
INVENTORS U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center and Massachusetts defense firm Foster-Miller...
...lawsuits that rely on the legal precedent set by the Boy Scouts of America in 2000, a Christian law group is battling university officials across the country to be allowed to bar gay members. The bylaws of the 42-year-old Christian Legal Society, which was founded to foster Christian fellowship in the law profession, permit only gays who have repented their sins to join. Because of this rule, college officials denied registration to several of the association's 80 chapters, stripping them of funding. "We have a strict policy against discrimination that won't be compromised," says Fran Marsh...
Jones, the publisher, said that the Post, like other papers, is concerned with providing opportunities to foster diversity. “The Post has made a lot of strides in that area but we keep trying to work on it,” he said...
...necessarily owe automatic representation to its student population. But in all fairness, the city could not enjoy the relative prosperity it has without the presence of Harvard, MIT, and Lesley University, which collectively account for 18,000 jobs in Cambridge, attract developing businesses and tourism to the area, and foster the city’s reputation as an intellectual and technology hub. The issues that are important to Harvard students, including safety, are not out of step with the concerns of other Cambridge residents. More important, satisfied student constituents in the short-term would translate into active and informed Cantabrigian...