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...Hill will need to turn up the heat on North Korea even more. His somewhat unlikely ally in pressuring Pyongyang is Lee Myung Bak, 66, the newly inaugurated President of South Korea. Lee, a conservative who says he wants closer ties with Washington, has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years. This program of engagement allowed North Korea, without giving up much of anything, to gorge on a smorgasbord of South Korean aid amounting to more than $800 million...
...have all but given up on our disaffected youth. Their surly demeanor and vicious behavior are a consummate failure of the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown era. The people who once famously claimed to be "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" chose instead to be even tougher on the victims of crime. Some young hooded lout threatens you or your family's safety, so you clip his ear, and an army of social workers springs to his defense while the full might and majesty of the law are brought down on you, with all the consequent personal...
...core and the “college town” atmosphere whenever your parents came to visit. You girded your loins at the prospect of being rejected where your family members had been accepted. And you sent in your application. Maybe Harvard does owe you.Certainly there are tougher backgrounds. All those Harvard armchairs do not exactly betoken straitened circumstances. At least one of your parents’ roommates has become a high-powered lawyer, and he probably takes you out to lunch from time to time. But being a legacy with thoughts of applying is a very specific kind...
...Everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, if our advanced preemptive strike once begins.' NORTH KOREAN STATE NEWS AGENCY, threatening South Korea with destruction. Relations between the countries have soured over North Korea's continuing intransigence over its nuclear program and the South's tougher negotiating tactics...
...battle the Radcliffe lightweights. “We set this up to be a challenge for them,” Stevens added. “I felt like going into this season that they would be a strong crew and to be stronger you have to race against tougher competition.” CLASS OF 2004 CUP Mirroring last year’s results, the Black and White surged to take the first three races of the day, as the third varsity four, the novice eight, and the second varsity eight rallied to make a claim to the cup with...