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...We’re ready,” Stone said. “We’ve had a pretty competitive schedule up to this point. Now it’s time to ratchet it up a little...
Stephan P. Sonnenberg, a Harvard Human Rights Project Fellow and a student at Harvard Law School who has worked closely with Okhotin in the last months, says that once Okhotin turned down their bribe solicitations, the officials were bound to ratchet up the legal pressure...
...While North Korea may be moving to ratchet up the crisis, not even Washington's hawks are pushing for a military response - at least not yet. Its conventional artillery capability would allow North Korea to flatten Seoul in the first half-hour of any confrontation. The human cost of going to war may too prohibitive in this instance. Instead, the hawks want to isolate North Korea and force its collapse through sanctions. So moribund and dependent is the North Korean economy that sanctions would indeed spark social collapse, which is why Pyongyang has warned it will treat any embargo...
...deeply unsettling. For the last several years, students applying to Harvard’s non-binding early action program have been able to simultaneously apply to other universities under similar non-binding programs. But now, in what can only seem a petty move to lessen paperwork and ratchet up admissions yield by a sliver of a percent, Harvard will not allow its early-action applicants to apply elsewhere on the early schedule. While not entirely destroying the immense benefits of a non-binding early admissions program, Harvard is acting entirely counter to its spirit of flexibility and choice...
...ground assault on Baghdad until the Army can deploy 20,000 more troops from the 4th Infantry Division--who left Fort Hood, Texas, for Kuwait this week--to the front lines to reinforce the two forces already in place. As it regroups on the ground, the U.S. plans to ratchet up the pressure from the air. Apache helicopters from the Army's 101st Airborne Division have begun attacking the Republican Guard's Medina division southwest of Baghdad. Warplanes and gunships will try to smash the three Republican Guard divisions arrayed south of Baghdad as U.S. and Kurdish forces pouring...