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...morning in 1995, followers of the doomsday cult, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract police investigating their secretive chemical-manufacturing operation, quietly used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five Tokyo subway trains. A poisonous cloud spread through the trains and stations. Thousands of commuters were sickened, and 12 people died...
...this thing called cloud chasing—you cut back and forth through the clouds,” he says. “I don’t think many Harvard kids get to say they’ve done that...
...when they made an early stop at the Newark bus terminal, their doubts vanished. Beyond the pandemonium in the terminal, a thick cloud of smoke and dust obscured the view of the New York City skyline...
...Harvard is not nearly the best place to hone one’s moral compass,” he says—pointing to attitudes of competitiveness, an aggressive drive to succeed, and selfishness that are “somewhat common” and “can cloud moral issues...
...only does the current standoff threaten to cloud any peace discussions this summer; it threatens at any moment to blow up in a new wave of violence that would entirely eclipse such discussions. The sharp uptick in attacks on Israelis and the continued Israeli operations inside Area A is more likely to produce a new explosion of bloodshed rather than any progress towards peace. Those who believe in Oslo's basic premise - that Israel and the Palestinian Authority can find their way to peace through bilateral negotiations - are fast becoming an endangered species. (Indeed, the only mainstream Israeli leader...