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...three, four, five days at a time." That paid off last month when Hill helped secure North Korea's agreement to eliminate, in principle, its nuclear-weapons program--a deal that infuriated the Hellhole Gang's hard-line rivals. And yet even with Cheney's decline, the hawks could gain the upper hand again if countries like Iran and North Korea rebuff U.S.-backed diplomatic proffers. "I can't remember a time when there were so many challenges around the world confronting our country simultaneously," says Burns. "We think we can handle them. We've got the diplomatic firepower...
...20th century programming. But the Internet is a transformative thing, and so with it we’re really trying to step up and catch up to the other colleges that we’re currently so far behind.”According to Koenigs, HRTV is finally gaining momentum. “Ivory Tower” is currently in its latest online season, with the third episode set to debut on Sunday, March 11.“Crimson Hookups,” a dating show, is about to film an all-male episode, and “Respectively French?...
...extensively. In his 2006 book “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok devotes a chapter to the subject of undergraduate writing, drawing from a four-year study conducted by Sommers between 1997 and 2001. The study tracked the writing of 400 students to “gain a better understanding of the role writing plays in a college education,” according to the Expos Web site...
...volleyball team defeated neighboring rival Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 3-1 (30-27, 25-30, 30-22, 30-22) in last night’s match at the Malkin Athletic Center.After a four-day break between games, the Crimson (7-3, 4-3 Hay) struggled to gain mental focus for the first two games of the match.“Our bodies were rested,” co-captain Dave Fitz said. “At Monday practice, everyone was jumping really high, but practice wasn’t that smooth. Mentally we were out of it a little...
...development in the process of “averaging” America, according to Igo. Kinsey’s work in the mid-1940s and 1950s seemed to follow the mid-century trend in social investigation, though it also pioneered new surveying practices. Kinsey’s ability to gain private information from individuals even won the admiration of Gallup.Igo argues that the greatest value the American public gleaned from Kinsey’s reports was an understanding of what was “normal” in an area of their lives otherwise seen as incredibly personal. Despite fears...