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...Admit it -- You miss the cold war. It was a roughly symmetrical duel, a face-off between two nuclear powers. The battle against terrorism is more like a free-for-all in a gladiator movie--spear vs. net, triton vs. tiger. We land our troops with guns. They board our trains with backpacks...
COCAINE The coke party started late for most boomers--not until the 1980s--but when it hit, it hit hard. Even cocaine apologists admit that the drug is dangerously addictive and sometimes lethal. Coke-triggered strokes and heart attacks--both of which can occur in people with no known cardiovascular disease--are the real deal, caused by the sudden elevation of blood pressure and spasms of vessels. "The damage can be done suddenly and acutely," says Raicht, "or slowly and chronically...
...create friendships among members,” Cetrulo wrote in an e-mail. “The Owl has a diverse membership, ranging from all political, social and economic areas.” In 1984, the University severed ties with the final clubs after attempts to pressure them to admit women were unsuccessful. The University cited Title IX of the 1972 Higher Education Act, a federal law championed by Kennedy. The senator is not the first final club member to serve in elected office. Both of his older brothers, President John F. Kennedy ’40 and Sen. Robert...
...sense a bomb was about to drop—“because I was willing to do the second and didn’t feel like doing the first.”Provocation had long been Summers’ modus operandi, but it was unusual for him to admit that outright. Perhaps he felt comfortable inside the confines of what was ostensibly an off-the-record meeting, though nothing said among 40 professors is private. Or perhaps he thought he could remove his University president’s cap for an hour, though he has since acknowledged...
...down the tubes. It is time to disillusion.He is right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come...