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...North will go on building the old reactors until those other sources of energy arrive in the country -- and that the West should fork over $2 billion in cash to compensate Pyongyang for what it has already spent. Contrary to what he said in August, he now wants to select which country will supply the new reactors, mainly to exclude South Korea, the only country so far willing to pay for them...
Administration officials said they tentatively planned to conduct a lottery that would select about a quarter of the 20,000 Cuban immigrants that Washington told Havana it would accept yearly. In theory the lottery is supposed to create opportunities for currently ineligible emigres, as well as eliminate huge waiting lines at the U.S. diplomatic post in Havana...
...world history courses gave me this grounding. I would venture to claim that other American students at public or private high schools received the same. Harvard's population of foreign students more unfamiliar than they would like with Western Civilization have ample survey courses within the History Department to select from, as does anyone, of course...
...educational professionals, by the early 1980s there was substantial angst within the Harvard community regarding the core's teaching methods and curriculum.. Campus dissatisfaction received national scrutiny when, in 1985, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett attacked the core, saying, "The core is designed not to teach any select body of knowledge, but to introduce presumably eager undergraduates to different 'modes of inquiry'.... Thus after four years, hopefully you will be able to flip a mental switch and think like a historian or an economist or a scientist. And you'd better be able to because the core...
...This year's punching season will begin in early October and select the 158th class of Fly Club members. And, as it has been since 1836, they will all be male," said a club statement issued yesterday...