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Still, in the short term, Abdullah's visit is at least a sign that the leaders of the Arab Middle East have backed away from a regional confrontation. However, with Israel threatening to shut down Iran's nuclear program the old-fashioned way - by military strikes - if an alliance of Western nations can't do so through negotiations, it's unlikely that peace will hold for long...
...through the Crimson’s first eight games of 2009, Harms has been even better. Harms is sporting a .38 goals against average with five shut outs. His clean sheet against Army on September 13th helped propel Harvard into the national rankings for the first time this season...
...During the downturn, the rates at which industrial capacity was being utilized in the U.S. and Japan, the world's two largest economies, plummeted to the lowest levels on record. In China, the world's workshop, tens of thousands of factories making mostly low-end merchandise have shut down...
...Harvard’s attitude is offensively superficial if it thinks a 0.7 acre parcel is enough to make us shut up and go away,” said Brent Whelan ’73, another resident and member of the Task Force...
...earliest national strategies, conceived during the Johnson Administration and based on research begun under Dwight Eisenhower, called for nuclear-tipped rockets that could head off an incoming missile by exploding in its path. A day after Richard Nixon unveiled the first operational version, known as Safeguard, Congress shut it down, citing costs and a general reluctance to scatter warheads across the country. In 1983, Ronald Reagan called for a nonnuclear approach, inevitably nicknamed Star Wars, that would destroy missiles from space using yet-to-be-developed particle beams and lasers. It was followed in 1988 by a plan for thousands...