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...July and allowed in international inspectors, as called for by its agreements. But a deadline to disclose all of its nuclear programs and disable the Yongbyon facilities came and went at the end of last year. To try to break the impasse, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill on April 8 met with North Korea's top nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye Gwan, in Singapore. Hill, however, reported no major breakthroughs...
...Hill will need to turn up the heat on North Korea even more. His somewhat unlikely ally in pressuring Pyongyang is Lee Myung Bak, 66, the newly inaugurated President of South Korea. Lee, a conservative who says he wants closer ties with Washington, has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years. This program of engagement allowed North Korea, without giving up much of anything, to gorge on a smorgasbord of South Korean aid amounting to more than $800 million...
...gender stereotyping occurs during high school—especially at a testosterone-jammed all-boys prep school. And this stereotyping, that is frequently exacerbated at single-sex schools, can oftentimes affect a student’s college career. Alexander M. Fuller ’10, who attended Belmont Hill School, an all-boys private school in Belmont, Mass., notes that the typical male stereotype definitely had a presence on his high school campus. “You are required to play three sports, and [Belmont Hill] is absurdly dominant in athletics,” says Fuller, who ran cross-country...
Even as General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker made their case on Capitol Hill for maintaining U.S. troop levels in Iraq, a key Iraqi advocate of sending them home was making a power play. Tensions had been high in Baghdad Tuesday morning, in anticipation of a million-strong march against the U.S. occupation called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. His Mahdi Army had been engaged in weeks of violent clashes with U.S. and Iraqi government forces in the capital and in the southern city of Basra, and many in the capital feared the worst. But on Tuesday...
...meter dash with 12.34 and 12.49 finishes, respectively, and again in the 200-meter dash with 25.24 and 25.32 times, respectively. Rookie Jamie Olson and junior Jan Ng placed second and fifth in the women’s 800-meter run at 2:14.03 and 2:15.54, respectively.Freshman Brian Hill placed fourth in the men’s 800-meter run with a 1:53.50 finish. Sophomore Justin Grinstead and freshman Dina Emde both notched solid performances in the 400-meter hurdles. Grinstead’s 54.18 finish on the men’s side was good for fifth...