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...Diplomats also believe that China has recently been pressuring North Korea to stem the flow of refugees. "Beijing wanted to nip in the bud, before the Olympics, any chance that the number of refugees would turn into a flood this year," says one diplomat who has followed the issue. "They've really tried to crack down on the border." Beijing isn't motivated purely by image concerns prior to Beijing 2008. The manufacturing economy in China's northeast, home to many state-owned companies, has slowed. "The Chinese already have plenty of surplus labor in that part of the country...
...hopeful that we can do a better job,” Amaker said. “And then hopefully being at home again we’ll have enough spirit, confidence, and energy that can propel us to get over the hump if we find ourselves in a nip-and-tuck situation—as we anticipate it will...
Students seeking a nip of gin or an advertised party will have to look outside Harvard’s 12 undergraduate Houses after administrators presented a new standard alcohol policy for the College yesterday...
...their words that emotion inevitably followed. Indeed, these taboo appearances of genuine feeling have come to serve as the only indicator that a politician is anything more than a partisan mouthpiece. Sure, Hillary has plenty of flaws, and her own public persona hasn’t escaped the scrupulous nip-and-tuck required of all presidential hopefuls. It doesn’t help that her natural temperament is only slightly warmer than a New Hampshire winter; in a college letter, she perceptively defined herself as “Hillary Rodham, acknowledged agnostic intellectual liberal, emotional conservative...
...year ago, Harvard was the underestimated team looking to make a statement. In 2008, the Crimson will have to do what Dartmouth couldn’t: nip an upset bid in the bud, and halt a league rival before it picks up speed...