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...Harvard baseball team (7-18, 5-3 Ivy) split two games against the Princeton Tigers (9-13, 2-6) on Sunday, losing the first game 3-1 and winning the second game 13-12 in 17 innings. Senior right fielder Tom Stack-Babich provided clutch hitting for Harvard in the second game, hitting a game-tying home run in the thirteenth inning, as well as the game-winning single.“Anytime we can beat Princeton—more importantly in a late inning game—it’s just something to build upon...
...long-range missile that North Korea launched Sunday morning eventually fell harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean, carrying with it a communications satellite that it had intended to deploy in orbit. In typical fashion, the North Korean government today lied about the satellite plunge. Its central news agency informed the citizenry that the satellite was already beaming back into North Korea "immortal revolutionary paeans to General Kim Il Sung'' - the country's founder - "and his son, General Kim Jong...
...meantime, the U.N. Security Council - at the behest of the U.S. and its key allies in East Asia, Japan and South Korea - convened yesterday to consider a response to the launch. But the meeting broke up late Sunday night with no agreement on anything, and that speaks volumes about the gap that now exists between China and Russia on one side (both permanent members of the Security Council) and the U.S., South Korea and Japan on the other. (Those nations, plus North Korea, comprise the six-party talks.) (Read about what North Korea could look like after...
...China's reaction to the launch was almost nonchalant, as if its diplomats couldn't be roused to work on a pleasant spring Sunday. In effect, Beijing said, Let's move along, folks - nothing to see here. The Foreign Ministry, in fact, issued a statement calling on other nations not to do or say anything that would upset international "peace and stability" - as if Pyongyang's launch had not already done...
...direct violation of U.N. resolutions 1718 and 1695, which applied sanctions against Pyongyang in the wake of its 2006 missile and nuclear tests and whose language is unequivocal in its opposition to further ballistic-missile tests. But news accounts say that some Security Council members are not convinced the Sunday launch violated the resolutions, presumably because the payload was a satellite, not a weapon. That's the position in both Beijing and Moscow, diplomatic sources tell TIME. Indeed, after the talks at the U.N. ended last night in New York City, Zhang Yesui, China's ambassador, said, "Our position...