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...Harvard must remain an unapologetically American institution. The new general education requirement is welcome, but unless it can help reverse the steady trend toward post-nationalism on campus, it may well prove fruitless. In that case, students lacking an affinity for America should not be surprised if they find, upon leaving Harvard, that America lacks an affinity for them...

Author: By Joshua Patashnik | Title: Is Harvard American Enough? | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...Police apprehended Itoh's attacker moments after the shooting. They've identified him as Tetsuya Shiroo, 59, and said he was a senior member of a gang affiliated with Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's biggest yakuza criminal syndicate. Police say Shiroo admitted to the shooting upon his arrest. His motive remains unclear: local media are reporting that Shiroo had a personal grudge against the mayor and his local government, but at least one anti-nuclear activist wondered whether there might be a political motive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Nagasaki Mayor's Shooting | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has called upon Japan to revise its pacifist constitution, the country has taken a turn to the right, and political intimidation by fringe rightist groups isn't unknown. In August the house of senior legislator Koichi Kato was burned to the ground in an arson attack, in what was taken as a warning against Kato's outspoken liberal views. It remains to be seen whether Itoh's shooting was another political warning, or just a personal grudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Nagasaki Mayor's Shooting | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...Annenberg Hall in the Memorial Hall complex, with everything from museum artifacts to paintings to bring patrons back to the tavern’s 19th-century origins. (The pub shares it name with a Southwark, England, drinkery that was among the properties bequeathed by John Harvard to the University upon his death.) Following the pub’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, free appetizers will be served for two hours. The cuisine will include Poilâne bread from the world-renowned Paris bakery owned by Apollonia Poilâne ’07. When...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pub Set to Open, Faithful to Old English Roots | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

...have Yongbyon nuclear facilities shut down; we don't have them monitored with international observers. We do not have any fuel oil delivered to [North Korea]." South Korea was standing by, Hill said, to deliver 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil to Pyongyang, the agreed-upon reward for decommissioning the reactor, in preparation for the second, more ambitious phase of the disarmament deal. If the Kim Jong Il regime makes good on its word to dismantle its weapons program completely, it is slated receive 1 million tons of fuel oil or its equivalent in economic and humanitarian assistance, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happens Now on North Korea? | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

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