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...Kumar said. “Even when he has lost the first set, he’s the one guy who I still believe will come back and win under any circumstance.” Kumar’s faith proved well placed as “Colonel?? Clayton roared back from a 2-6 first set to take the second 6-4. With opponent Artem Vlasenko changing his shirt due to perspiration, the Crimson captain stayed calm and focused, launching blistering serves and overcoming a late ankle strain to take the final frame 6-3. Despite Clayton?...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Singles Wins Help Crimson Take Match | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing. In the novel, which is mostly set in Vietnam from 1963 to 1970, “Tree of Smoke” is the name of a covert operation, the brainchild of a powerful, charismatic CIA operative known simply as the Colonel. It is the Colonel??s obsession to use a double agent, a philosophically disillusioned North Vietnamese man, to trick the Vietcong into thinking that some crazed commandos have stolen an atomic bomb and are trying to detonate it in Hanoi.Skip, the self-loathing, introverted CIA underling who acts as our protagonist, serves...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Vietnam Novel Nothing But ‘Smoke’ and Mirrors | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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