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...tell you, I'm an eternal optimist," the former President said in an interview with ABC's Sam Donaldson that night. "I believed in all my heart it was in the future." Two years earlier, Reagan had addressed a crowd of some 20,000 near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Wall. At the time, even his closest advisers dismissed the notion as far-fetched. "It's a great speech line," Reagan's National Security Adviser, Frank Carlucci, remembers thinking. "But it will never happen." When the Wall came down, however, Reagan...
...selling novelist, champion amateur race-car driver, wildly popular blogger and, as his self-consciously provocative antics at the track underlined, China's most media-savvy celebrity rebel. Since 2000, when he burst onto China's literary scene at the age of 17 with his first best seller, Triple Gate, Han has shrewdly mined a seam of youthful resentment and anomie through his stories of anguished characters in their late teens and early 20s. One of China's top-earning authors, he is widely seen as a torchbearer for the generation born after the beginning of the country's opening...
According to The Crimson’s survey of the Class of 2009, over 50% of graduating Harvard students headed to consulting, finance, and health care. When these are the major roads leading away from Johnston Gate, it may be difficult to find resources off the beaten path...
...Crimson came out of the gate with intensity, winning the first set, 25-23. Errors and miscommunication set in and began to disrupt play, and the Crimson dropped the second and third sets with scores...
...event was advertised as an opportunity for faculty to join hands with students in defending their departments against the barbarians at the gate...