Word: commander
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With the exceptions of first-semester first-years, perhaps, Harvard students of all years tend to think they have a good command of this institution, that their knowledge of the Harvard Experience is relatively complete regardless of the stage of it at which they actually find themselves. Thus a sophomore is overheard explaining to someone how the social scene at Harvard works, or a junior feels she truly understands what the value of writing a senior thesis...
...nation's missile-warning specialists at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs are as worried as anyone about potential Y2K problems, but it is Russia's defense and attack systems, not our own, that give them the jitters. To forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a "joint confidence center" and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that...
...years Milosevic and his myrmidons insisted that Arkan acted alone. But Arkan has begun to hint that such may not be the case, that Milosevic did know about his activities. "When I was in Croatia, I was under the command of the Yugoslav army," Arkan says. "In Bosnia I was under the command of the MUP [Interior Ministry]." The implication: he was acting under Milosevic's orders...
...other--is not necessarily a reflection of the kind of directional transformation that should go on at college and at Harvard in particular. But what would happen if we instead read the inscriptions more consistently--if we read the entering inscription as an imperative, thinking of "Enter" as a command, and read the departing inscription as an offer and not an imperative...
Nonetheless, thinking of Enter as a command may cut into our stress level as we attempt to live up to the Harvard name. Whatever burdens come with the Harvard education are ours to bear. Just as we were pushed through Dexter Gate by those around us, so are we pulled...