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...verbal alter ego, recalls that at the crucial moment of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, J.F.K. asked him and Bobby Kennedy to go to Sorensen's office to work out a reply to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's threatening letter, a response credited with defusing the nuclear danger. Porter, who is a professor at Harvard, worked out George H.W. Bush's education goals in his cramped, second-story office with then Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell...
...Sept. 11 effect was far more subtle and far more profound. It returned America to a world of danger, a world we thought we had escaped, perhaps for good, with the end of the cold war. For two generations after the late 1930s, Americans faced one great existential threat after another--world war, cold war, the threat of nuclear war. During the age of anxiety, anyone aspiring to serious national office had to pass the elementary test: seriousness on national security...
...danger is that every requirement can be met merely as a requirement,” Brodhead said. “The most essential component of an education is a role in shaping it—you can’t take it out of students’ hands...
...world's most powerful military and intelligence services, assisted by the security services of most of the European, Arab and Asian worlds, to eliminate him. The fact that bin Laden is alive underscores not only a sense of the limits of U.S. achievements in Afghanistan - achievements in danger of being reversed, the Pentagon has warned - but also the vitality of his movement. If bin Laden is alive, it can safely be assumed that considerable numbers of people are prepared to risk an awful lot to protect him. Reports of continued infusions of cash certainly suggest that there are plenty...
...when the ball does enter the defensive third, Harvard has generally averted danger. The backfield was the Crimson’s most heavily hit area due to graduation as only captain Katie Scott returned, but First Team All-Ivy midfielder Jen Ahn was shifted back, and Andrews and junior Diana Bowen filled the other holes...