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...history major in Thomas Dwight College, he has plans on heading into investment banking upon graduation. While not leading his team to Ivy glory, he likes to jam to Metallica and claims to be a fair golfer...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walland's Got the Wand | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...test nuclear weapons--we have not conducted a nuclear test since 1992. In light of this commitment, we have little reason not to sign on to a treaty preventing other nations from building new arsenals. The logic of a test ban was recognized 40 years ago by former president Dwight D. Eisenhower when he called for a treaty ending nuclear tests: because no arsenal can be developed without testing the components, a test ban would be a perhaps insurmountable barrier to any would-be nuclear power...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: U.S. Must Sign Test Ban | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...many motorcycles and smoke so many joints"), is always expanding his repertoire. He stars in a children's film, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, scheduled for release next year. Also awaiting release is South of Heaven, West of Hell, also starring his daughter Bridget Fonda, Vincent Gallo, Vince Vaughn, Dwight Yoakam and Billy Bob Thornton. And in last year's memoir Don't Tell Dad, Peter Fonda recollects...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peter Fonda: From Easy Rider to Slimey Music Exec | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...General Dwight Eisenhower was prepared to invade Normandy on June 5, but when his weather officer predicted storms over the English Channel, Ike postponed D-day for 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roads Not Taken | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The next time someone asks whether character counts in a leader, remind them of D-day, June 6, 1944. In the months leading up to it, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower assembled an armada of 4,400 ships and landing craft, 11,000 airplanes and 155,000 troops with which to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Then, having done his best, Eisenhower imagined the worst. Along with a ringing message to his troops, he drafted a different one in case the invasion failed. In it he said, "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

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