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With reference to SDI (Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly called Star Wars), I strongly support the idea. In this, I would like to insist on two basic conditions: that it should not be a one-way street and that what we do together should be for our common benefit. The research carried out will not only be of military value; three-fourths of the research will have civilian applications. We can add a lot to this effort, in sophisticated optics, for example. I would like other Europeans to cooperate with us in this effort, like the French, British...
...suggest that a companion star to the sun periodically comes close enough to nudge comets gravitationally out of their natural habitat--a cloud of comets that circles the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto--sending them hurtling toward earth. Others assign that role to Planet X, while some insist that the slow, bobbing ride of the sun and its planets around the Milky Way galaxy is responsible. Whatever the details, declares Paleontologist J. John Sepkoski Jr. of the University of Chicago, the evidence for periodic mass extinctions "very strongly implicates an extraterrestrial mechanism...
Imagine this courtyard full of carefree, scantily clad young people, and then realize that once again New England weather has played a sadistic trick. For what we have here is a mob of goose bumpy, shivering, bluish victims of spring fever. Poor fools myself included who insist that it is spring just because the calendar tells us that it is April Just the other morning Rich Heller wisely warned us that it was going to be only partly sunny and that although it might be in the 60's inland, those near the coast must grapple with 50 degree weather...
...most interesting member of The Class (as Segal and diarist Andrew Eliot, the sometime narrator insist upon calling it) is Theodore Lambros, the commuter who aspires to be a Harvard classics professor. Ted pays his way by working at his father's restaurant, picking up a preppy wife along the way, and then plunges into the rat race that is the tenure track. As a classicist who taught at Harvard and Princeton before winding up at Yale, Segal knows the intimate details of the hard-fought battles that surround lifetime appointments including the much-desired favorable reviews in the Confy...
Another thing: why does the Athletic Department's office door on John F. Kennedy St. still insist its address is 60 Boylston St., even though the thoroughfare was renamed John F. Kennedy St. before many of today's undergraduates entered the College...