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...Korea suddenly agreed to the American demand for multilateral talks about ending its nuclear-weapons program (even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...
...January New York Times article, the U.S. has acquired its empire “in a state of deep denial.” President George Bush last summer told graduating students at West Point that “America has no empire to extend or utopia to establish,” and five months later he told a group of veterans at the White House that “[w]e have no territorial ambitions. We don’t seek an empire.” Such protestations, Ferguson says, are balderdash...
...succeed in business more than talent is needed—personal connections can often prove to be deal clinchers. In the absence of programs such as SVMP, minority students often lack the opportunity to establish these personal relationships before entering the corporate world—placing them at a severe disadvantage for years to come. The opportunity to spend productive time networking during college will inevitably be a boon to their subsequent careers and will help to subvert the good old boy networks that dominate many sectors of American business...
Phase I of this clinical trial was performed to establish the safety of the treatment...
According to its organizers, Mather Lather is more than just good clean fun. It is an attempt to “re-establish the dominance of Mather as a party house,” says House Committee (HoCo) Chair Zachary A. Corker ’04. The rise of the Quad as a partying mecca, he says, has meant that “Mather’s reputation as a party dorm has slipped...