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...force to bring it under Beijing's control. Throwing the option of a nuclear strike in the mix, however, could spark some panicky discussions in Beijing. The U.S. is currently developing a National Missile Defense that would, even in its most limited version, effectively neutralize China's small fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles. NMD was always going to spur China to greatly expand its own missile fleet to give it the potential to overwhelm U.S. defenses and therefore maintain a credible nuclear deterrent. That drive will be given added urgency by suggestions that the Pentagon might envisage a nuclear strike...
...Wednesday afternoon, an unidentified man robbed the Harvard Square branch of Fleet Bank...
...Fleet representatives declined to comment on the incident...
...early months of 2001 for exhibition at the Venice Biennale, where he received the prized Leone d’Oro award. The series is principally a contemplation and revival of the legendary Lepanto battle of 1571 where a combined Spanish, Venetian and Papal armada fought and defeated the imposing fleet of the Ottoman Empire. The battle of Lepanto was celebrated widely as a decisive turning point in the struggle between East and West...
...convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed - in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernán Cortés' 1,600 men slaughtering more than 1 million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...