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...moon right now." He said he had "misted up" at the playing of the U.S. national anthem in Pyongyang, and that the emotional power of the evening only grew from there. He was right. Several hard-bitten journalists, myself included, choked up at various points, and several orchestra members spoke of breaking down in the wings after leaving the stage as the audience continued to stand and applaud. U.S. diplomats, current and former, were euphoric. Donald Gregg, a former State Department and CIA official, who diplomats say has played a quiet but influential role in getting the Bush Administration...
...extending the due date by one week, until this Friday.The review, less formally called “Dowling II,” will be chaired by neuroscience professor John E. Dowling ’57, who chaired the Committee to Review College Governance that founded the UC in 1982.Dowling spoke at the UC’s Feb. 18 meeting, where he urged the Council not to seek to appoint students to the committee.“The review has to be at arm’s length from the Council itself,” Dowling said, citing concerns that...
Actually, it was none of the above. According to former information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who spoke to the United Nation's news agency IRIN this week, his party, which is aligned with Musharraf, lost the parliamentary poll "because people were angry over the fact atta [flour] was not available, that food prices were high, and due to this they felt insecure." It's a familiar lament in Pakistan these days. "We are worried about terrorism and those other things, but first we are worried about basic needs," says Islamabad nurse Nithat, 24, as she shops in the capital...
Legal scholars and technology executives spoke before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday at a public hearing at Harvard Law School on the role companies should have in regulating consumers’ Internet use.The discussions, which attracted a standing-room only audience, were triggered by recent alleged abuses to net neutrality—the idea that Internet providers should not be able to block consumers’ access to Internet resources.“The Internet is as much mine and yours as it is AT&T and Comcast’s,” said Representative Edward J. Markey...
...confident his candidacy won't harm the Democratic nominee's chances for success. And, even if he thought it would get in the Democrats' way, he'd still be running. The now-three-time candidate, who announced his 2008 long shot bid for the presidency this past weekend, spoke to TIME's Jay Newton-Small about why he's running this time and what he hopes to get out of it - certainly not the Oval Office...