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Perhaps officials unschooled in architecture couldn't distinguish Carey's frame from a ski lodge (which, admittedly, it did rather resemble). Nevertheless, the storm of protest from experts in the field of design should have been more fully considered. As architectural historian Douglass Shand-Tucci '72 complained, "Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history this...
Citing the controversial additions to Memorial Hall, the decision to divide the Freshman Union's great space into separate offices and now the decision to demolish the cage, Shand-Tucci said: "History is important to Harvard. Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history in this...
...only women found on the floor were traders' assistants who had worked with the guys for years and appeared to be used to the environment. The result was a disturbing hierarchy whereby a man could be a women's superior and never vice versa. The guys sometimes curtailed their crudest comments when the women were around, but the "effort" still left an appallingly unprofessional environment...
...been arrested for counterfeiting. That was followed in June by recovery of less than a gram of highly enriched uranium -- probably fuel from a nuclear-powered submarine -- in Landshut. Even if all + this smuggled booty were put together, there would not be enough for the smallest and crudest atom bomb, which in the hands of inexperienced makers would take about 8 kg of plutonium...
Nuclear weapons in the hands of extremists willing to use them would produce terrorism of a wholly new magnitude. The central logic of terrorism is to maximize horror and shock, producing a blaze of publicity and attention for the cause it represents. By that measure, the crudest of fission bombs set off in a modern city, vaporizing entire blocks, would make the crimes of Carlos and his ilk rank as little more than pinpricks...