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...Japan warn that Tokyo's inflexibility on the abduction issue is robbing it of any influence over the negotiation process. "Japan has lost the leverage of being able to dangle a $10 billion reparations carrot in front of North Korea," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based North East Asia project director for the International Crisis Group. "The Japanese delegation has been reduced to being spectators at the nuclear talks." For Tokyo, which thought it was finally getting in the game after decades on the diplomatic sidelines, that feeling will be frustratingly familiar...
...Vice President Dick Cheney. In December, Russia threatened to cut gas to two other former Soviet republics, Georgia and Belarus, unless they paid higher prices; and the Anglo-Dutch oil firm Shell bowed to pressure to let state-owned Gazprom gain control of a $20 billion natural-gas project in Sakhalin Island, shocking foreign investors...
...Last month, Harvard lost the Civil Rights Project to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), when the center’s co-founder and director, Gary Orfield, decided to relocate to UCLA, where he will now co-direct the center with his wife, Patricia Gandara, also an education scholar...
...impact on new generations as one of my proudest achievements.” The goals of the national mentorship campaign are to recognize the work of mentors and to recruit new volunteers, said Susan Moses, the co-director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Harvard Mentoring Project. Other personalities include Maya Angelou, Clint Eastwood, and Sting, all of whom will be making public service announcements to raise awareness about the importance of mentoring. Jones—after whom Harvard’s first-ever endowed African American music professorship is named—has worked with HSPH...
Take three minutes of “The Blair Witch Project,” change the soundtrack to a catchy but repetitive pop song, and you’ve got something that resembles the Fray’s new video for “How to Save a Life.” The video, which seems to be about the death of the lead singer’s friend whom he wishes he could have saved, would be genuinely emotional if not for its overwhelmingly flat aesthetics. The dull tones of the suburban setting, the harsh industrial lighting...