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...knowing what waits for these troops after this story ends (the resistance, the IEDS), makes us fear for them. We get a few chilling glimpses, as when the unit finds a dead fighter carrying papers from Syria. Some of the men rejoice at killing a "terrorist," but Lieutenant Nate Fick (Stark Sands) asks, "Isn't that the exact opposite of what we wanted to have happen here? Two weeks ago, he was still a student in Syria...
...financial aid packages draw a handful of military officers every year. “Harvard was very generous in helping me fund the tuition, and that made the difference, since no one comes out of the military with a pile of stock options,” said Nathaniel C. Fick, an MBA candidate at the Business School. Fick left the Marines as a Captain and earned a Master’s degree in International Security Policy from KSG. He has become something of a veteran celebrity on campus after his book “One Bullet Away...
...former marine explained to an audience of about 30 yesterday. In a panel discussion entitled “The Role of the Military in Exercising Soft Power,” Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations Joseph S. Nye and former captain and current KSG student Nathaniel Fick argued that the military has to uphold its image as a positive force by using soft power in constructive ways. Nye, who has worked for the State Department, defined soft power for the U.S. military as an aim to persuade others to want the goals it advocates. “Power...
Wednesday, Oct. 19. “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer.” Nathaniel Fick, a student at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School, who is also a retired Marine Corps captain who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, talks about his life as one of “the few, the proud.” 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...urban decay. Three standout supporting actors are uniquely worth mentioning. Bobby A. Hodgson ’05 is wonderfully frenetic as the aptly-named Dopey, who delivers a sparkling and drug-crazed monologue, and Josh C. Phillips ’07’s burnt out heroin-addict Fick is both hilarious and sad. Scottie Thompson’s Ann, a dragon-lady salt-of-the earth working girl, is also excellent: when the second act opens to Ann smoking a cigarette in quiet café, her back to a bear yellow wall, her bearing is that of a woman...