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Barack Obama grew up long after the 1950s air-raid drills that sent students scurrying under their desks, but the mushroom cloud was never far from his imagination. He wrote his senior thesis on nuclear arms reduction and quoted reggae star Peter Tosh in an essay about the "flowering of the nuclear Freeze movement" for a student magazine. Now that onetime activist possesses the power to summon the world. At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, he gathered representatives of 47 nations (including 38 heads of state) for the largest diplomatic event convened by a U.S. President since 1945. Obama...
...challenge for the varsity eight than the Quaker crew. Navy jumped out to an early two-seat advantage in the first 20 strokes. Through the 500-meter mark, though, Harvard pushed out to roughly a three-seat lead. In the middle thousand, the Crimson’s margin grew to a stern deck on the Midshipmen’s bow deck. But Navy chipped away, narrowing the lead to half a length...
Although John is an American citizen, he grew up in England. He speaks slowly, with a resonant, Mid-Atlantic gravity that settles somewhere in the American South...
While VanderMeulen was expected to make an impact from day one, expectations grew when Halpern sustained a season-ending injury in her team’s second game, making the freshman the team’s number one scoring option...
Harvard’s lead grew to five early in the second when VanderMeulen fired a free position shot past the Tigers goalkeeper for her Ivy League-leading 44th score of the season...