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...week during which President Bush had reiterated that Tehran was part of an Axis of Evil, Secretary of State Rice had chided Iran as the "central banker of terrorism," and Washington's man at the UN, John Bolton, had spoken of a threat from Iran akin to "9/11 with nuclear weapons." Yet within hours of Iran's national security chief announcing on Thursday that Tehran was open for talks on Iraq, the Bush Administration made clear that it was, too. Both sides continued to trade barbs in public - the Iranians insist they're simply going to tell the Americans...
...football games, granted, they’re slightly out of their element. Sticking the fifty-person band in a corner of massive, concrete Harvard Stadium is somewhat akin to trying to lecture in Sanders without a mic, or asking Kenny G to do the halftime show at the Super Bowl...
...first place finish in Providence, R.I.The races marked the first chance for the Crimson to test its skills in New England waters after spending the first two weekends in Charleston, S.C. The opening regatta of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA), the Brown Invite is more akin to the typical regatta Harvard will sail this season. And, in typical northeastern fashion, the weather played a large part in how things turned out.Originally scheduled to be a two-day event, Saturday’s action was cancelled due to the cold weather and windy conditions. It left the teams with...
...proposal that would allow students to list a secondary field—akin to a minor—on their Harvard transcripts may be retroactively applied to current juniors, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 told a Sanders Theater audience on Friday...
...sphere-shaped array of tiny detonators. No file specifically refers to a nuclear bomb, but U.S. officials say the design of the sphere--an outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass--is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. "Because of the size and weight and the power source going into it and height-of-burst requirements," says the diplomat, Western experts have concluded that the design "is only intended...