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This group is absolutely appalled that the U.S., having infuriated the North with a targeted, highly effective sanction - the freezing of $25 million in funds in Macau, most of which came from illegal businesses like counterfeiting - simply said "never mind" when it became clear the dust-up would ruin the nuclear deal. Kim, in this view, is a hard guy to get any leverage over, simply because he doesn't think like a normal head of state: everything is a zero sum game to him - you win or I win. The U.S. Treasury's action freezing the funds squeezed...
...raised serious concerns about the independence of the collegiate press. Universities, like society at large, rely on a free press to provide a check on administrative authority and misuse of power. Administrative oversight, has a chilling effect by forcing students to weigh their journalistic duty against fear of disciplinary sanction from the university. No journalist—student or professional—should have to make such a choice. We applaud efforts to give legislative protection to the collegiate press, such as a bill passed by the Illinois legislature earlier this year. Closer to home, the issue of academic freedom...
...uranium enrichment capabilities in defiance of U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze that activity. IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei also noted that Iran was three to eight years away from having the capability to produce a nuclear weapon. "My view is that we need to strengthen our sanction regime," Bush said, adding that he and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had discussed plans to beef up punitive U.N. measures...
President Bush commissioned Naval Reserves Officer Training Corps (NROTC) member Erik A. Sand ’07 yesterday, and took the opportunity to make some pointed remarks directed towards schools such as Harvard that do not officially sanction ROTC programs...
According to Sand and current president of Harvard’s ROTC Association, Air Force ROTC member Michael J. Arth ’08, the White House contacted the association because it wanted to have ROTC cadet representatives from schools that do not sanction the programs, such as Harvard and Stanford University...