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...Administration. With some balking, the North has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Recent talks have dangled carrots before Pyongyang like promising deliveries of heavy fuel oil in exchange for further denuclearization. The New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea in February is not a direct result of Hill's work, but the event would surely have been less likely without the improved atmospherics he's helped bring about. And a world that's making music is a whole lot better than one that's making bombs...
...stay in line. They promote national policy, but they never make it. Christopher Hill, the U.S.'s head envoy to North Korea, is that rare diplomat who did things differently, stepping out ahead of his talking points and managing to bring his bosses along with him. As a result, he is also helping to bring the most dangerous nation in Asia back into the global embrace...
Thaler has been putting these ideas to work for years in corporate retirement-savings plans. Some 30% of people eligible for such plans fail to sign up, even though companies often match contributions--free money, as it were. As a result of Thaler's work, many firms have switched to automatic enrollment. In the language of Nudge, the plans have moved from "opt in" to "opt out." That turns people's inertia-like tendency to stick with the default option--whether or not it's a good one--into an advantage...
...department that emphasizes concise writing, the name “Department of English and American Language and Literature” might be considered a bit clunky. As a result, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on whether to trim the name to the more manageable “Department of English” at its next meeting on April 8. The proposal for the name change was passed yesterday by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty. The department itself already uses the shorter name, with several endowed professorships carrying the name...
...possibility of a 2008 boycott, however. They and others rightly point out that the greatest burden of Olympic boycotts fall upon the shoulders not of the host country, but of guiltless athletes. For example, the American athletes who were barred from competing in the 1980 Moscow Games as a result of the U.S. boycott were asked, in then-Vice President Walter Mondale’s words, “to pay a price that couldn’t be repaid,” while the Soviet Union’s ensuing boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Games hardly...