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...over that other notorious member of the "Axis of Evil," North Korea. In that on-again, off-again six-party negotiating process, which includes North Korea, South Korea, Russia, China, the U.S. and Japan, the consensus among everyone but the U.S. is that walking Pyongyang back across the nuclear threshold requires offering it security guarantees and direct talks with the U.S. Washington hawks have long balked at those conditions, but the agreement of principles concluded last September does, in fact, include a security guarantee from the U.S. in exchange for North Korea renouncing nuclear weapons. Those talks have remained deadlocked...
...Fitzsimmons ’67 said last week that Harvard’s expanded financial aid program played a role in the increased diversity of the admitted Class of 2010. The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which previously eliminated parental contributions from families earning less than $40,000, raised the threshold to $60,000 starting next academic year. Colleges’ affordability and the proportion of students on financial aid were part of the Hispanic Magazine ranking criteria, according to the magazine article. Shirley V. Cardona ’06, who works for the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, said...
...person who, say, is picked up on four occasions coming into the country illegally, a border-patrol representative said if it did, the immigration legal system would collapse. Said the spokeswoman: "Because there's such a large influx of people coming across, if we're to put the threshold at four and send them up [to Tucson, Ariz., or Phoenix, Ariz., for processing], we'd be sending ... too many people, and it would overwhelm the immigration system...
That is why Iran's arriving at the threshold of nuclear weaponry is such a signal historical moment. It is not just that its President says crazy things about the Holocaust. It is that he is a fervent believer in the imminent reappearance of the 12th Imam, Shi'ism's version of the Messiah. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reported as saying in official meetings that the end of history is only two or three years away. He reportedly told an associate that on the podium of the General Assembly last September, he felt a halo around...
...have slipped her mind, so a friendly reminder (that does not involve copious amounts of clothing and exercise) could be the perfect remedy. Roommates share an array of important items: hand soap, illegal coffee makers, and broken futons, to name a few. But not everything that passes the threshold of your suite is automatically common property. Did you ever say that you would share all of your possessions simply because you live together? “My house is your house,” is a great sentiment, but that doesn’t mean “my underwear...