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...What is the status of the six-party nuclear talks with North Korea? I think the United States' position is that the verification stage [in which the North discloses all of its nuclear programs] is going to take a lot of time and is going to be very difficult. That is our position as well. But what's important is that my government will continue to work very closely with China and the U.S. in order to resolve this. We have no intention of taking two separate tracks, for instance by developing inter-Korean relations apart from the six-party...
...audience's impatience with the critique format is emblematic of a generational yearning for greater freedom of expression in the cultural sphere. Music's status is contested in Islam, with some jurisprudents arguing that it is halal, permissible, and others insisting that it is haraam, forbidden. Following Iran's 1979 revolution, the new Islamic Republic at first banned all music. Although most classical and traditional music was soon allowed again, it wasn't until moderate President Khatami's term in 1997 that regulations loosened up sufficiently to allow Iranian rock band to spring up in garages across Tehran. Today, even...
...polar ice caps are "currently shrinking because of global warming" [June 2]. But the ice at the Antarctic has been expanding for 30 years. The New Zealand Antarctic Centre currently shows a display that quantifies the recent growth in the South Pole ice cap. If publications with your status and resources can't get the facts right, what hope has the general public of coming to grips with the complexities of climate change? John Watt, Brisbane, Queensland...
...mentioned above, the price of tickets would probably be substantially lower than they are currently selling for on the black market. Furthermore, since any student could choose not to buy or sell any Commencement tickets, they would all be guaranteed at least four commencement tickets anyway, just like the status...
...remember it well; I was a student finishing my first year of graduate work at Harvard and it had already been a tumultuous semester. In January, the Viet Cong had struck hard against U.S. forces in Vietnam with their bloody Tet Offensive. Earlier that month my Selective Service status had been changed to 1-A, a fateful switch that took me away from Harvard and into military service the following year, after all my appeals ran out. Angered by this fate, in February and March I skipped classes, traveling to New Hampshire to campaign for anti-war candidate Senator Eugene...