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North Korea has long been considered a grave threat to global security due to its unapologetic nuclear ambitions. But on Oct. 9, 2006, the threat finally crystallized, as the North Korean government announced its first successful test of a nuclear weapon. The international community has acted quickly to address the mounting security crisis; on Oct. 14, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution imposing sanctions aimed at keeping certain weapons, nuclear material, and luxury goods from entering North Korea. The Security Council resolution reveals an interesting offshoot of North Korea’s dangerous, antagonistic behavior: the cooperation...
More fundamentally, the discomfort of some progressives with any hint of religiosity has often inhibited us from effectively addressing issues in moral terms. Some of the problem is rhetorical: Scrub language of all religious content and we forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice. Imagine Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address without reference to "the judgments of the Lord," or King's "I Have a Dream" speech without reference to "all of God's children." Their summoning of a higher truth helped inspire what had seemed impossible and move...
...would improve teaching and student-faculty contact, we were unaware until now of just how high the accompanying costs would be. There is no question that budget-slashing in the next few years will be unpleasant, but for the time being it appears unavoidable. The Faculty must move to address the deficit, but it should not do so at the expense of the College...
Professor of History Jill Lepore, the chair of the program's steering committee, gave the opening address to an audience of around 50 who gathered in Emerson Hall...
...would require the U.S. to "treat this precisely like a nuclear-tipped-missile attack" and retaliate against Pyongyang. "That danger [of North Korean proliferation] has always been there," says Michael Green, until last year a senior staff member on the National Security Council. "But North Korea has a mailing address, and they know it. If there was a nuclear explosion somewhere, it would probably be traced back to them, and their country would be destroyed. That's a deterrent...