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...recent poll from the Blue Chip Economic Indicators newsletter shows that many analysts expect GDP to recover as early as the third quarter but since that the measure was down 6% the last two quarters, such a swift recovery would be like building the Great Pyramid by hand in six months during a raging sand storm...
...demonstrate that the regime still has muscle. These are people who know that war means their demise, whereas a bargain with the U.S., while it would require stopping nuclear-weapon and missile production, would give the regime legitimacy. It might also spare them from having to give up the six to 10 plutonium bombs they evidently have...
North Korea's rocket launch of April 5, the U.N. Security Council vote to condemn the launch and strengthen sanctions, and the North's decision of April 14 to pull out of the six-party talks have thrown a monkey wrench into prospects for a negotiated resolution of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapon and missile programs. On the surface it appears that North Korea is again embarked on a threatening course; it has vowed to continue work on its contested weapons programs. But on closer examination, the North's weapons tests always occur at times of insecurity. Its tough posturing belies...
...storied competition in track was being held last weekend.“[Franklin Field] wasn’t really full, but along the finishing straight-away, it was packed with all different teams. People were yelling and cheering. It was a great Ivy League bonding opportunity.”Six individual Ivy League titles were brought in on both sides, as the speed and strength of the Harvard athletes helped the men and women finish sixth and fourth, respectively, in competition. Overall, powerhouses Cornell and Princeton continued to dominate the Ivy League, with the Big Red finishing...
...rounds of 318, 323, and 338 for the three-day affair on the par-72 course. Senior Emily Balmert led the Crimson’s efforts this past weekend at the tournament held on the Scarlet Course on the campus of The Ohio State University. She shot rounds of six, seven, and eight over par, finishing with 11 pars on the final day of competition. “It was a tough weekend for us,” Balmert said. “We did not play as well as we would have liked or probably as well...