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...threatens to shoot himself. The would-be savior complains about the confusion "back in the world," vet talk for home. But he too is deeply disturbed. "You think you've got problems," he says to the distraught man. "There's nothing wrong with you that a little search-and-destroy wouldn't cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirits of '76...BACK IN THE WORLD | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Abraham Lincoln said, "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." President Reagan has a chance to make a breakthrough in our relationship with the Soviets if he has the vision to do it. History will judge him as either the President who bankrupted his country preparing for nuclear war or the President who had the courage to stop the arms race. Tired of the cold war, the country is crying our for the latter. Ted Keener Bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...fallen so far behind that a backlog of boxes, each filled with three feet of paper containing secret, time-sensitive leads, had built up. Since embassies must be prepared for the possibility of a hostile takeover, the rule is that officials should need no more than 15 minutes to destroy all their sensitive documents. Accordingly, the supervisor ordered the shredding of hundreds, perhaps thousands of pages, many of them related directly to the ongoing 9/11 investigation, an FBI briefer told Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Blew the Leads? | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

Introduced in February by State Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, the bill immediately generated controversy—Mass. Governor W. Mitt Romney vowed to veto it, arguing that creating embryos for scientific purposes could destroy human lives. Yet the bill sailed through the House and the Senate, easily surpassing the two-thirds margin necessary to override Romney’s veto...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Culturing Support for Stem Cells | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...Crimson next took a long trip to face Kansas and Houston. Kansas proved to be the biggest challenge Harvard had faced thus far, as the Crimson pulled out a tight 194.5-157.5 win. The team was able to destroy Houston by a tally...

Author: By Abilgail M. Baird, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Women's Swimming | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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