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...longer. Kim has been more pliable of late: at six-party talks in Beijing late last month, North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear facilities and disclose the scope of its nuclear program by the end of the year. Yet history counsels caution. Kim Jong Il has proven a master manipulator of Seoul's optimists, raising hopes of eventual reunification just to extract economic concessions and buy more time for his hermetic Stalinist fiefdom. "You can imagine a scenario in which South Korea offers this big carrot and North Korea simply pockets it and retreats back into its shell," says...
...Remembering a Master's Voice I mourn the passing of the world's greatest tenor, Luciano Pavarotti [Sept. 24]. We are lucky to have his recordings, which are his legacy. I saw all his operas at the Met and was allowed to go backstage to meet him. He was gracious and kind and autographed many pictures and posters for me. I will miss him. James J. LaRosa Albany...
Sean Palfrey, the co-master of Adams House, said that the topic was broached at the most recent Masters’ meeting last week and that there was a “hardy consensus” among the masters...
...years of the Business School’s existence, “1908-2008,” are inscribed on its surface. “The new bell...will have special significance for this community,” Business School Dean Jay O. Light said. Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck detailed the history of the bells’ presence at Harvard and the prolonged efforts to return them to their original home. “Though we had been stewards, in a sense, of these bells for seven decades, we realized we had no idea how to ring them...
...Harvard’s definition of “environment” is too narrow, asking Harvard to make stronger commitments to green space and to traffic concerns . . . . Some are not yet convinced that Harvard’s talk of “open space” in its Master Plan for Allston will translate well; Allston resident Michael Pahre pointed out in one of the letters opposing the waiver, “the green space [designated in the Science Complex plans] is in a private, enclosed space encircled by four buildings.” In this vein, we hope...