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...Responding to the crisis of the 1990s was made immensely difficult by Pyongyang's secrecy. By the time the extent of starvation was known by the outside world, it was too late. Significant U.S. food aid didn't arrive until late 1997, when the famine had already peaked. The specter of emaciated North Korean children once again threatens to complicate efforts to maintain stability on the peninsula. Trying to pressure North Korea by cutting off aid has in the past had little apparent effect on Pyongyang's policies and tactics. Kim's regime shrugs off the suffering of its citizens...
Summers’ penchant for self-deprecation has proven especially useful this semester as his speaking engagements have occurred under the specter of his comments on women in science. Professor of Public Service David R. Gergen—onetime adviser to Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and now Summers—has been largely responsible for the profusion of modesty and self-effacing humor in Summers’ speeches of late, according to a former Mass. Hall staffer who asked not to be named. Gergen did not respond to a request for comment through his assistant...
...emboldened professors began raising the specter of Summers’ resignation, attention on campus turned increasingly to the seven-member Corporation, the only group with the power to unseat the president. It seemed an unlikely outcome, and yet as the situation continued to deteriorate, the board would have to respond...
...Class of 1955 had attended Harvard during the height of McCarthy’s influence. Though the senator was censured in late 1954, the specter of McCarthyism lingered even as students made their way out of Harvard Yard...
...don’t like veto threats, and I don’t like statements about overriding veto threats,” said the Senate’s chief sponsor of the bill, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., at a news conference. “I think if it really comes down to a showdown, we will have enough in the United States Senate to override a veto...