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...There was one glimmer, literally, of light amidst all the darkness. The Nunn-Lugar program has dismantled and repurposed so much weapons-grade uranium in the last decade that 50% of the fuel currently consumed by U.S. nuclear power plants is now derived from warheads which once sat atop of Warsaw Pact rockets and missiles. Since about one fifth of all electricity in the U.S. comes from nuclear power plants, Nunn added, "One out of 10 of these light bulbs right here in this room, theoretically, comes from missile material that was aimed at us during the Cold...
...cold February day, across the frozen Charles River, in the belly of the Bright Hockey Center, a Harvard coach made a promise. Amidst a crowd of witnesses, men’s hockey skipper Ted Donato ’91 gave me his word. And here I sit, two months later, my graduation date in sight, and Donato is nowhere to be seen...
...Amidst the bustling traffic on what is known as the “JFK bridge,” it is easy to overlook two plaques that dedicate the structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...
...idea of stipends funding these “peer” relationships harkens towards a tête-à-tête that is more murky than it is efficient. The boundaries between adviser and advisee are a vague distinction that is thoroughly conflated in the Peer Advising program. But amidst all the confusion about who’s actually in charge, the original task at hand has suddenly been masked—what is to be done with this overwhelmed Harvard neophyte? And will his dicey peer have the answers to all of his questions?FRIEND OR FOE?...
...Netherlands in over two decades—isn’t entirely worthless. Still, he puts too much of “Showgirls” (his 1995 softcore porn hit) into “Black Book,” and the sex doesn’t quite fit amidst the violence and squalor of the Dutch resistance in WWII. Call me a prude, but when a pretty Jewish girl is steeling herself to seduce an SS commandant, I don’t need to see her give a quickie to a fellow resistance member after waxing her pubic hair...