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...gone, but the blue recycling bins remain stacked in every dorm, and it’s hard to find a toilet on campus without a bright green dual-flush handle. Beyond these colors shouting at you to live a “greener” life, though, the biggest contributors to sustainability aren’t necessarily our personal efforts, but instead the buildings we live and work in. The big push this year is green building, and with the 20th Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification of a Harvard facility, we’re well...
...that you simply can’t exaggerate how hard you want him to train, because he’ll train that hard and more, to the point of being overworked,” Norton comments, laughing a little. “Sometimes Chris almost works too hard. His biggest gain will be made when he learns how to rest a little...
...Bank’s biggest hits seemed pretty tame in comparison. Many voters think we shouldn’t “Make it rain” (outside of Pfoho of course) and liked the proposal from Josh M. Zagorsky ’08 to turn off the sprinklers… when it’s already raining. Meanwhile, a whopping 146 students agreed that closed buildings like the MAC shouldn’t stay lit all night long...
What was the biggest surprise you uncovered? One discovery made a real impression on me. The highest calling of any intelligence agency is to tell truth to power. The first example of this I came across is during the 1938 Munich crisis, one of the most ignoble moments in British foreign policy. MI5 at that point actually understands [Adolf] Hitler far better than the British government and then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in particular. He pays no attention to what they tell him during the negotiations that lead to the Munich agreements. So Vernon Kell [the head...
Looking through 100 years of files, what do you see as MI5's biggest success? Definitely against Germany during the Second World War. Some of the best German spies were turned into double agents, and that is the central part of the most successful deception in the history of warfare, without which the D-day landing couldn't have taken place. What I discovered in the files is how it all began - in a characteristically eccentric British way. The most adventurous of the MI5 agents in the 1930s was an air ace from the First World War named Christopher Draper...