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...Pentagon rumor mill is also abuzz with the question of whom Gates will choose to replace Army Gen. John Abizaid as chief of Central Command, the region that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan. Abizaid and Army Gen. George Casey, the ground commander in Iraq, have overseen the war for years and are drawing at least some of the blame for allowing Iraq to disinintegrate on their watch. As Douglas MacGregor, a retired Army Col. and military writer, observed recently: "Tactical blunders have strategic consequences and the generals have blundered badly in Iraq. In war, military strategy is supposed to reduce...
...Londongrad" is abuzz with controversy in the wake of Litvinenko's ghoulish Nov. 23 demise and his deathbed accusation that his murder was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin's denial of involvement was complicated by the discovery that former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, a Putin critic, had fallen ill in Ireland the day after Litvinenko died. Gaidar has since tested negative for radiation poisoning. But Litvinenko's wife and an Italian security analyst who met him at the sushi restaurant the day he fell ill have tested positive for radioactivity...
...mail lists across campus were abuzz yesterday with rumors that a JetBlue campus promotion that has students wearing blue and yelling “go blue” to win free plane tickets is actually a prank engineered by Yale students. But according to JetBlue spokeswoman Sharon Jones and JetBlue campus representative Taylor M. Owings ’08, the promotion is not a prank...
...zigzagging string lines occasionally punctuated with brass and bells, sounds awfully like a recycling of Adams’ earlier post-minimalist works like “Harmonielehre” and “Naïve and Sentimental Music.”Last year, Adams had the country abuzz with the premiere of “Doctor Atomic,” his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25 and the morality behind weapons of mass destruction. Likewise, he came under national spotlight when the New York Philharmonic asked him to write a memorial piece for Sept...
...wasn’t always this way. In 1978, as the Core was being readied for Faculty approval, this campus was abuzz with controversy. 2,500 undergraduates signed a petition calling for more student input; a Crimson poll reported that 65 percent of students opposed the plan. Even freshman proctors issued a collective statement against the changes. This newspaper urged students “to engage in organized protest” against the Core, “for the sake of a better Harvard education and for opposing the elitist process used to formulate the proposal...