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Find a clock, and watch five seconds tick by. For allied soldiers driving tanks through the Iraqi desert, that's a generous amount of time in which to do the following: spot a vehicle through the optics system, consult the last available coordinates for all known battlefield combatants, try to identify the vehicle's type, check if it has a special panel that appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fratricide: Misfiring in the Fog | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

Even though students receive generous funding and devoted instruction, not everyone is satisfied by the film program—some students say they think that it is not only small but also limited in many ways, including its tendency to focus on non-fiction ilmmaking...

Author: By Zhenzhen Lu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movies on Harvard’s Tab | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...city councillors have pointed out, the $1.5 million is “woefully inadequate,” especially in light of the more generous payment plan Harvard offered to Watertown earlier this fall. Watertown, which agreed to allow broad development of the University’s properties, was given $3.8 million by Harvard this year to offset any substantial losses the city will incur as a result of the University’s tax exemptions...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Abandoning Auto-PILOT | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

...expect strong serves, frightening consistency and accuracy in baseline rallies, and a vicious slice, but not a generous coverage of the court. Summers won’t talk much during play or attempt to psyche-out his opponents, but you can expect a mental and physical workout nonetheless...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, Ben C. Wasserstein, and Kenyon S. Weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Fifteen-Love | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

...nearly a year after 9/11, in conversations throughout Southeast Asia, I encountered sympathy and admiration for the U.S. "Where are you from?" a diplomat or a street vendor would ask. "America," I'd reply, "New York City." This would elicit expressions of outrage at the terrorist attacks, generous inquiries into the well-being of my friends and family and then perhaps a mention of the war in Afghanistan. From the impoverished or oppressed, a request often followed: please tell your President to send help. A faint belief that he might was detectable. A sense that he could, through benign gestures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diminished Expectations | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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