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...touch of class and a Harvard-caliber brain." "Since Pete had not been expecting to leave the tense intellectual environment of Harvard all day, he was delighted to encounter someone who was both relaxed and willing to tell him interesting things," the author remarks later. Columbia University is significantly absent from the novel...
...also one of the best presentations of the roots and magnitude of the problem of moving the world away from the brink. Combined, Dyson's erudition and realism lead him to an approach which may represent a true step towards a world in which nuclear weapons are not just absent, but also unnecessary, unwanted, and unlikely to return...
Mike Okwu, absent from much of this year's indoor competition, returned to win the 100-meter dash in 11.59, 0.03 seconds ahead of Northeastern's Lawrence Hooker...
...find their author's gnomic mystifications as fascinating as ever. But no one can dispute how sharply Golding has made a break with some of his old habits. Unfortunately, he does not abandon his worst ones. At first, the customary mixture of history, allegory and determinist philosophy seems absent. Golding begins with a plausible version of the here and now, and introduces a main character who bears some teasing resemblances to Golding himself...
...Then you've raised the Defcon [defense condition]," I said. He disagreed. This raised the temperature of the conversation. I began to suspect that Weinberger did not know what he had done. He left the room to telephone in private. He was absent for perhaps ten minutes. When he returned, he told us, unequivocally, that he had not formally raised the alert status of our forces. He had merely sent a message to field commanders informing them officially of the situation in Washington. Most important, U.S. strategic forces remained in their normal defense condition...