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...Pyongyang and offered a champagne toast to Kim has Washington's embrace of his regime been tighter. The cranked-up diplomacy was set in motion by the recent breakthrough in the six-party talks aimed at getting the North to end its nuclear-weapons program. Last month, North Korea struck a deal with the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan and Russia to shut down its Yongbyon reactor, which produces the plutonium material necessary to make nukes, in return for a variety of economic and diplomatic benefits, including an emergency delivery of 50,000 tons of fuel oil. The Bush Administration...
...case of Noorzai is just more evidence of the plague of groupthink that has struck U.S. decision makers, from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes made in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source, but then they just let him rot in jail with the crucial information he has. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives. Winston Samson Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...always been struck by the double injustice of her murder. Not only did the killer cut short her life amid immense terror and suffering, but he defined it. He-a stranger, an intruder-gave her a perverse immortality of a kind she never sought, never expected, never consented to. She surely thought that in her 28 years she had been building a life of joys and loves, struggle and achievement, friendship and fellowship. That and everything else she built her life into were simply swallowed up by the notoriety of her death, a notoriety unchosen and unbidden...
...came ready to claim what he believed was rightfully his; the senior struck first, earning an impressive 9-2 win. Sanchez soon adjusted his play, however, pushing Suchde much harder in winning the second set 9-7. However, Suchde wanted the championship too much to allow a comeback...
...with less than three minutes to go in the period, Harbec struck again, albeit inadvertently. As Harbec tried to center a pass to Duggan, the puck deflected off of Harvard freshman defenseman Cori Bassett’s shin and past sophomore goalie Brittany Martin...