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In another meeting with Dobrynin, on Jan. 17, and in two phone calls, Brzezinski kept pushing for more detail. Could the uranium on board reach critical mass and explode either on re-entry or on impact with the earth? It could not, Dobrynin insisted. Brzezinski signed a National Security Council...
Douglas argues that rather than having the negative and counter-productive effect of making admissions committees lower their conventional standards, affirmative action can have the progressive effect of alerting admissions committees to ways in which they can widen their standards.
As far as Marshall's audience knew before he spoke, the Secretary of State would merely add his bit to the usual commencement pieties. No ballyhoo had preceded him; no Washington flacks had scurried about alerting the press that a "major" statement would be forthcoming. In fact, say some...
Tipped Off. So who had had Abu Daoud arrested and why? That was the question of the week. The most plausible answer was Israel, whose intelligence agents keep close watch on P.L.O. terrorists. By alerting friends in the DST to Abu Daoud's presence in France, they could both...
His feelings for The Crimson proceed along much the same lines. One of Al's favorite jokes is to rename the Crime "the Harvard Iceberg" on account of what he perceives as a lack of any humor on the part of the paper. More than once he has offered a...