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...some critics say the University is still too decentralized for the president to have a tight grip on everything...
...mind of U.S. and North Korean negotiators when they concluded their deal two weeks ago. In exchange for curbing its nuclear development program, Pyongyang will get 500,000 tons of free heavy oil and growing ties with Washington that the regime hopes will help strengthen its grip. The U.S. is betting that more contact with the West will have just the opposite effect -- and that eventually the walls designed to keep North Koreans at home will crumble...
Undefeated University of Pennsylvania continues its death grip on first place in the Ivy League this season. Cornell (3-1) has slipped to second place. Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale are all tied for fourth place with a record...
...ideology that has failed the country and that needs a massive overhaul. It is an ideology of big federal programs, a belief that the nation's problems can be solved once the government takes matters in hand. The result? Massive government debt and a strengthening of poverty's grip on our inner cities...
...Chambers County in the midst of a torrential downpour. As the vehicle came to a stop, the father grabbed his two-year-old son and his baby, who was born only two months ago. Attempting to scramble to safety on the roof of the car, he lost his grip on the infant, who immediately disappeared in the swirling water; the child's body was found Wednesday...