Word: grips
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With Brown cementing its grip on first place with its defeat of Penn Saturday, the Ivy League title is now officially out of the Crimson’s reach. But Harvard’s overall record still gives it a chance of having some sort of postseason—at least if it wins its last three contests...
...Administration, with Kim Jong Il's government ratcheting up the tension in the region on Oct. 3 when it claimed to have finished reprocessing spent fuel rods and said that it was building a nuclear arsenal. North Koreans live in utter poverty under a Stalinist system, yet Kim's grip on power is as strong as ever. On his trip to Asia this week, President Bush will face many questions about North Korea, and the U.S. has explored the possibility of a written security guarantee for North Korea. With South Korea and Japan in easy striking distance, and China growing...
...should hug the government to death. This means opening up the frontiers to commerce and trade. By showing the North Koreans what a bounty democracy and capitalism brings, the government will lose a certain grip on its citizens. This is not as radical as delcaring war or overthrowing Kim, but on the long term, it will be beneficial for both parties. Sigmund Dunba Montreal, Canada...
...former Archbishop of Cracow, Karol Wojtyla, was elevated to the papacy in 1978, at a time when the Church was in the grip of an internal debate over how to interpret the doctrinal changes adopted the previous decade in the process known as Vatican II. And he steadfastly held the line against those in the European and North American clergy and laity who saw in Vatican II an opening to democratize the Church and emphasize the primacy of individual conscience, which would both move the church into line with the broader societies of the West, or at least help them...
Usually, D.C. has been a place slow to change because of the federal government’s death grip on it. While the federal government, unsurprisingly, is willing to give the District money, it’s less politically expedient to use D.C. as a testing ground for innovative changes that might improve the poor quality of life of its majority-black residents...