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...direct violation of two U.N. resolutions calling on the North to cease its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs. The result was a toothless "presidential statement" from the Security Council. But with the test of another nuke on May 25 - this one over 20 times more powerful than the squib the North exploded in its first test three years ago - along with several missile launches, Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Move, China | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...Squib kick received by Conor Murphy...

Author: By Crimson staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD AT PRINCETON (10/25) | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...volunteers." Some neighborhoods seem to have more guards than residents. Bus and subway riders are subject to random luggage probes, and a series of checkpoints on roads leading into Beijing have produced miles-long traffic jams. An anticipated Olympics-related tourism boom looks to be more of a damp squib, probably due in part to unusually strict enforcement of visa regulations. Some 500,000 tourists will visit Beijing this month, according to official estimates - that's about the same number that checked out the capital in August last year. One Chinese netizen named Ran Zaifei had this to say about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Olympic-Sized Security Blanket | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

Everyone was expecting fireworks, but all they got was a damp squib. On Monday, the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed adjourned with her former butler Paul Burrell reluctantly agreeing to bring in a letter she had written to him just before she died. The letter, which is partly quoted in one of his books, referred to a special upcoming weekend and a "secret" the two of them shared - a secret that Burrell had refused on Monday to disclose, before the judge demanded the letter. Was Diana going to announce her pregnancy that weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana Secret Outed! Court Let Down! | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...quarter: Completely unable to stop Yale's return game so far, the Crimson squib kick it. A pair of Bulldogs bat it around before covering...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD-YALE LIVE! BLOG 11/17/07 | 11/17/2007 | See Source »

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