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...North Korea Game On? Just days after being removed from a U.S. blacklist of states that sponsor terrorism, North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it would resume dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and would welcome international inspectors, ending nearly two months of stalled talks and threats of a second nuclear test. The announcement drew praise from China, which had led disarmament negotiations among the U.S., North Korea and its regional neighbors. Meanwhile, officials in Pyongyang released a purportedly recent photograph of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, in an attempt to refute rumors of his failing health...
...said Clayton W. Brooks III ’10, one of the debate’s organizers. Jeffery Kwong ’08-’09, Brooks’s co-organizer and former Harvard Republican Club president said that his personal experience motivated him to help sponsor the event. “I’m a gay republican,” Kwong said. “The party is changing, and I want that perception to be there, that the Republican Party is slowly becoming more and more accepting of LGBT issues.” Patrick Sammon...
...part of the relocation, which could take up to five years, the Embassy will sponsor an international design competition calling for energy-efficient building techniques and designs that "celebrate the values of freedom and democracy." All plans remain conditional until the United States Congress and local planning authorities approve the move. Unlike most of its embassies around the world, the United States does not own outright the land surrounding its British facility; it is currently leased (like much of the rest of the borough) from the Duke of Westminster, one of Britain's richest...
...help address big social challenges. Even Senators McCain and Obama find room to agree on the importance of service. That is reflected in part by their recent historic agreement at the ServiceNation Presidential Forum and Summit in New York City this past September 11th and 12th to co-sponsor the new bi-partisan “Serve America Act” with Senators Kennedy, Hatch, Dodd, Cochran, and Clinton. This new legislation will grow AmeriCorps by 175,000 corps members, strengthen and grow the Peace Corps, and create new problem solving corps in education, disaster relief, environmental protection, and other...
...with the screen, many bits of dialogue seem more unimportant than stupid—but not by much. Rockwell plays Victor, a 30-something sex addict who divides his time between his job as an “historical interpreter” at a colonial village, serving as a sponsor at nymphomaniacs-anonymous meetings (where he leads fellow addicts astray), and being a son devoted to a mother slipping into dementia. In his spare hours, he’s also a con man scamming money from wealthy Samaritans who are fooled by his choking act. It?...