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...kick out inspectors and restart its nuclear facilities in the first place. By making a determined effort at the negotiating table, the United States can, with the support of its allies, finally avoid sliding back into the preliminary rounds of negotiation, in which the North Koreans simply play shell games while continuing to develop nuclear weapons. And if these genuine efforts should fail, the US would then have a legitimate reason to reconsider regime change...
...Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636-1936.”And according to Morison, the Academic Council was used for a time by President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, who led the University from 1869 to 1909.Though the body has gone through some changes, a shell of the Academic Council still exists today. A 1997 re-accreditation report lists an Academic Council chaired by the president and including the provost as well as “the deans of the several faculties,” and the Graduate School of Design still lists the Academic Council in its faculty handbook...
...Harvard divested its endowment holdings in PetroChina, a subsidiary of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation, in early 2005, after mounting pressure from students, faculty, and alumni. But the University has maintained shares in other businesses with ties to the Sudanese government, including the oil companies Sinopec and Royal Dutch Shell. The Khartoum government has helped fund militia groups responsible for over 200,000 deaths in Sudan over the past three years, according to the U.S. government. Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice labeled the atrocities a “genocide.” Rebecca J. Hamilton, director...
...left with an impression more than a conclusion: stuttering is more than a speech condition—it is a complex phenomenon that influences culture in ways Shell has only begun to elucidate...
Stutter By Marc Shell Harvard University Press...