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Thus did the North Korean regime escalate a showdown that began last October, when it confirmed U.S. intelligence reports that it was illegally building a new uranium-enrichment factory--another pathway to the Bomb. The expulsion of the inspectors was the clearest sign yet that Pyongyang is intent on pushing the stand-off to the brink. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, lamented that the world now has "no clue" what Pyongyang might try to develop in coming months. In fact, it does have a clue: North Korea, which the CIA believes already has enough fissile...
...decades after World War II a truly dominant figure. When the new President, John Kennedy, came out of a harrowing meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, he went straight to a prearranged session with Reston to discuss Khrushchev's apparent threat of a nuclear showdown. In the months between that meeting and the Cuban missile crisis, Reston's reporting played the role it often had since the 1940s: it was the most authoritative indicator of what those in the U.S. government really had in mind...
...happy holiday for the Harvard men’s hockey team. The No. 13 Crimson split a pair of games in the Bank One Badger Showdown holiday tournament on Dec. 29 and 30 in Wisconsin...
...opening game of the Badger Showdown pitted the Crimson against No. 15 Northern Michigan (10-6-1, 8-4-0 CCHA...
...injuries reached a peak at the Bank One Badger Showdown. Facing Colgate on Dec. 30 in Wisconsin, Harvard was without five regulars and could only dress 10 forwards...