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...security guarantees, the North has refused to show up for meetings. Now that Kim has ignored warnings--from the U.S., Russia and China--not to test his missile capability and is threatening more tests in the immediate future, the question for the Administration is, What, besides the status quo, are the remaining options for dealing with the world's most unpredictable totalitarian nuclear regime...
...delta" [May 22] reported on the nascent insurgency in Nigeria's oil fields. The pervasive optimism that spread along with the re-emergence of democracy in Nigeria has been defeated. Poverty and corruption are still concomitant with Nigeria's struggling democracy, and unfortunately ethnopolitical opportunists have exploited the status quo for economic gains, as the Niger Delta crisis has illustrated. While politicians seem poised to tackle those ignominies, they have been preoccupied with personal aspirations, notably President Olesegun Obasanjo's efforts to change the constitution and run for a third term. Until government institutions embrace a truly democratic culture...
...Iran's track record suggests it might agree to suspend uranium enrichment, but probably not as a precondition for talks - which they would see giving up leverage with no quid pro quo - but rather as an outcome of talks. Tehran did, in fact, suspend uranium enrichment, under monitoring by the IAEA, during the three years of nuclear negotiation with Britain, France and Germany. But those talks went nowhere, and Larijani is reported to believe that Iran surrendered too much leverage and weakened its position. Iranian leaders also believe the open-ended nature of those talks allowed the Europeans to play...
...school’s resources and faculty without actually ever being a part of it. Their continued, unmodified membership in the College and in FAS should ensure that Harvard doesn’t tumble down the slippery slope toward the kind of anti-liberal arts, segregated status quo at schools like Columbia, whose undergraduate engineers have institutional affiliations different from their peers’.The legacy of President Summers will add to Harvard’s ability to contribute to scientific inquiry through institutionalized collaboration and innovation. One can only hope that Harvard College’s liberal arts focus...
...oppose the war in Iraq, and I will take on my friends who argue for turning Iran into a giant parking lot. I wish more Harvard students were willing to challenge the structures of authority that govern our daily lives and limit our capacity to think beyond the status quo, to abandon image-consciousness in favor of making a meaningful political choice. I would never advocate remaining silent on issues of great importance, and there are certainly some opinions we are not meant to entertain, but shouldn’t we save our voices for unjust laws, not displeasing commencement...