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...Litvinenko was poisoned. Finding polonium in a hotel Lugovoy had used on a previous trip to London prompted British authorities to wonder if there might have been an earlier, failed murder attempt. A senior British security official thought the sprawl of radioactive markers throughout London and beyond implied an amateur operation, not up to the FSB's usual standard. But another official disagreed. "This is such an extraordinary material to be using as a weapon," he said, "I'm not sure if any standard operating procedures would exist for handling it." Lugovoy's explanation for the traces that seem...
Commuters who wait at the Kendall Square T-stop have an aural distraction that is unlike amateur subway guitarists or the tunes emanating from their iPod earbuds. Since 1984, a contraption that melds high-culture art, physics, and the grime and tumult of Boston’s mass transit has amused and frustrated subway riders...
...importance of keeping a clean ship, a concept clearly lost on this year’s current contenders. Take Tom D. Hadfield ’08, for example, whose campaign manager told The Crimson on Monday, “I am a slave driver.” A less amateur candidate would recognize the obvious liabilities of employing a slave driver in a country where slavery was abolished more than 100 years ago. Perhaps Hadfield and his band of bigots should take their act to Dubai. Ryan A. Petersen ’08, on the other hand, has put together...
...needs to go beyond position papers and not just be a group of amateur lobbyists,” Goldenberg says...
...follows inhabitants of the Grand Valley Dani through the cycles of daily life as shaped by war and its repercussions. While the structure of the show may be didactic, Rockefeller’s images are so compelling that it’s hard to resist comparing this self-proclaimed amateur to photographic greats. Bubriski himself does so in the exhibition catalogue, naming Josef Koudelka or Robert Frank.In Rockefeller’s most striking photographs, his male Dani subjects seem at ease with his presence. This comfort is mutual, and is revealed in the calm yet bold compositions of these images...