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...radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué ... Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided to start testing its nuclear weapons again. Just 49 hours later, a brilliant flash lit the bleak plains of Central Asia, and a mighty bang echoed for miles ... The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision of the man in the Kremlin. What is alarming is Khrushchev's new willingness to flirt with terror. Conceivably, he could...
...just MTV drivel. And not that there's anything wrong with MTV. I guess ... well, there is to me because I think that stuff is fatiguing to the brain. If we're going to have a pop culture that's just going to be a lot of flash images, we're never going to get a chance to look at anything...
...Flash forward 15 years, and you’ll find him a senior at Harvard, the assistant captain of the No. 9 Crimson, the team’s leading scorer and its most complete two-way skater to take the ice each night...
Anyone who has seen a Merchant Ivory film knows that the British follow any flash of emotion with a long spasm of ritual. So it was that around Christmas, Prince Charles got down on one knee and proposed to Camilla Parker Bowles. She accepted. Then the Prince asked his mother Queen Elizabeth for official consent. The Queen, in accordance with the centuries-old Royal Marriages Act, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair for the government's approval. The PM consulted with the attorney general. Meanwhile, the Church of England chewed over the religious significance of a middle-aged, divorced prince trading...
...students planning on attending Friday’s festivities: Bring friends, socialize, eat some pizza, munch on a burrito, and drink some beer; but at the same time remember that your behavior will determine whether pub night will be a flash in the pan or a recurring and eagerly anticipated event. Especially with cheap alcohol being served, reasonable is the word for the evening. Having one, two or maybe even three beers is good, having twenty is not. Even one student hospitalization will convince the administration that pub night isn’t worth the effort since. If nothing else...