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...heroes, if there are any at all, sit behind gray desks in Moscow; Langley, Va.; and London. There they must sift through tons of material provided by hundreds of different sources before they can, with luck, piece together a picture of, say, the locking mechanism on a swing-wing fighter ... It is work that occupies tens of thousands of mathematicians and cryptographers, clerks and military analysts, often with the most trivial-seeming tasks. Yet it is work that no major nation feels it can afford to halt ... In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 35 Years Ago in TIME | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...modern day. Aristophanes, or any Greek playwright for that matter, might easily be considered dry entertainment for college students on a weekend night. But the Classics Club stupendously jazzed up the 2500-year-old play and had the audience appreciatively guffawing every other minute. It was the drab gray of the past spray-painted into a florescent, glittery, upbeat production—without losing reverence or appreciation for Aristophanes’ original classic. “The Birds,” as its title hints, is in fact, all about birds. Two Athenians, who are on the run because they...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jazzed, Snazzed, and Up-to-Date ‘Birds’ Soars | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

Soft lighting reflected off classic long-stemmed wine glasses, complementing tall bottles of Merlot, plates piled with Jarlsberg and Brie, and the gray-tinted chalkboard—not what one would expect on a typical Wednesday night at Harvard Law School (HLS). But for the members of In Vino Veritas, it was business as usual.“Okay, guys, we’re going to get started,” third-year law student Tom Brown, who led the wine-tasting that evening, says, clinking together two tall water bottles. Background chatter died out as the members, still students...

Author: By Ariadne C. Medler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vino Boot Camp, $15 a Bottle | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...knees investigation and sometimes lasting for hours.‘CRITICAL VIOLATIONS’ On a warm but blustery Friday, a baseball-cap-clad inspector, Lauren Sullivan, with flashlight in hand, began her inspection of Redline restaurant on JFK Street. Although Fallon does not usually tag along, the gray-haired assistant commissioner ventured out of the office on this particular afternoon.Sullivan inspects the “rubbish area,” where the dumpsters and grease-rendering barrel are located. Excess food stuck on the inside of the dumpsters can easily attract rodents and insects that can enter the restaurant...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Policing Your Plates | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...challenge, as well as many more after it ended in March. Rogers entered the pageant not to get in shape, but to raise awareness about global warming, an issue she championed as a Harvard undergrad and continues to work on today. “I was friends with Laurie Gray ’03, and she was Miss Rhode Island in 2003, and so that really got me thinking about the power of the organization,” Rogers said. “I really wanted an avenue to bring the message that we had been working on at Harvard...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rogers Takes Rhode Island Tiara | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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