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...soccer team's likely elimination from the World Cup is not the only thing putting Japan on edge these days. Mounting evidence that North Korea may be preparing to test-fire a missile has shaken the country far more seriously. On Sunday night, Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso said during an evening talk show that Japan would consider imposing economic sanctions immediately, and request that the U.N. Security Council take action, if North Korea decided to test a missile. Any test would violate a voluntary North Korean moratorium on long-range missile tests, Aso said, adding that protest from...
...Appeals lifted the injunction, saying the order “amounts to an unlawful prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment.” That year, Randall’s book hit The New York Times’ bestseller list. But the legal fight had left Randall shaken.“The attempt by the Mitchell estate to use the copyright laws to effect censorship was shocking and chilling, but I did not allow that to stop me,” she says. David H. Feinberg ’81, a close friend since freshman week, remembers Randall?...
When the group gathered in early 2004 to talk about a new album, none of the three sounded nearly that confident. "You could tell this thing had strengthened them personally but shaken them artistically," says producer Rick Rubin, famous for his work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beastie Boys and on Johnny Cash's haunting American series. "What turned me on, though, was that even though people were divided over what they said, people cared what they said, and that's a very strong position for an artist to be in. For the first time the girls, these...
...Abdul Aziz, journalists and other bystanders rushed to her aid, shouting at the thugs and trying to extract the woman. "Shame on you!" they yelled in a furious chorus of English and Arabic. "Are you animals?" The men backed off grudgingly, and the shaken reporter was ushered back to the relative security of the sidewalk."Cowards," spat Abdul Aziz as he walked away...
...acquaintance,” Marine said. A 25 year-old Lesley graduate student, Molly A. Rigsby, said that she usually has class until late in the evening, and her professors made all the students walk in pairs back to their residences. “People were shaken up,” Rigsby said, pointing out that there are no security locks on any of the campus’ main buildings. Still, freshman Jennifer K. Conolli said that she has “always felt safe” on campus. The community alert describes the suspect...