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When Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell was announced as Commencement speaker, the press release made much of his role as a great military leader. His support of the ban against homosexuals in the military, however, has caused many members of the Harvard community to criticize the decision as insensitive. The arguments will continue as the campus remains embroiled in this...
Five faculty members yesterday wrote to President Neil L. Rudenstine expressing "outrage" at the University's decision to invite Colin L. Powell, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to speak at Commencement and to receive an honorary degree...
...form of honesty. It's part of my life." Onstage, the Southern rockers the Black Crowes perform under a 48-ft. by 24-ft. banner emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. Says the group's lead singer, Chris Robinson, who posed for the cover of High Times magazine smoking a joint: "Pot is an essential part of life on the road...
...1970s. They already have a working space station; the U.S. does not. And the Russians have far more experience in the physiology of long-term space flight than their American counterparts have. If this bold collaboration comes off, it could lead to even more ambitious projects, like a joint manned mission to Mars, and forever change the way space research is done. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "Cooperation is a win-win opportunity. Space exploration only makes sense if it's done on a cooperative basis...
...happier about the prospect of joint missions, and especially about cooperation on the space station, than the Russians. While the U.S. space program has declined slowly, the Russian effort, though still technologically strong, has suffered mightily from the Soviet Union's collapse. The space facilities are now located in several different countries -- launch pads in Kazakhstan, flight controllers in Russia, manufacturing in Ukraine -- each with its own political agenda...