Word: believingness
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At 4 P.M., the Joint Chiefs recommended to President John F. Kennedy that the U.S. attack Cuba within 36 hours and destroy the Soviet missiles we had detected, believing--as the CIA estimated--the nuclear warheads had not yet been delivered. It would be a huge attack: the first day...
Death comes quickly in space, unless it comes very slowly. The crew of the shuttle Challenger is thought--or hoped--to have suffered little. Crew members of Apollo 13, had they not made it home, would have needed days to breathe up all their air and suffocate. Ever since the...
"Shock and awe" had been designed to decapitate the regime and remove its will, and ability to mount a coherent defense. That, coalition commanders had hoped, would spur mass-scale surrender and even the internal collapse of the regime with minimal loss of life. Saddam has planned all along on...
Almost as old as the tradition of randomization of the Houses—which was instituted in 1995—is the tradition of not believing that the lottery is actually randomized.
First-years should be ready for their House assignments and should sign up for their House open lists, but they should not be fooled into believing that the lists will fulfill their desire for debate on weighty matters. Instead, these lists will provide most students with mild entertainment when they...