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...Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, who has campaigned for workers’ rights and Harvard Corporation accountability, and helped plan the CIA protest, talked about the difference between students of yore and today. “Forty years ago students understood that the administration did not need their help, that they didn’t need to take the Man’s side to make protesters suffer more,” she said. “If Harvard’s going to Ad board somebody, they don’t need the vice president...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, POP AND FIZZ | Title: Act Your Age | 4/29/2005 | See Source »

...equipment room, the other, sealed behind an 8'/2-ton blast door, is the room where a two-man crew, sitting at two separate "status consoles," receives messages and stares at boards of lights. On June 6 this year, the command crew was 1st Lieut. Donald R. ("Skip") MacKinnon, 32, and 1st Lieut. Stephen J. Griffin, 24. June 6 was an atypically busy day for them because the launching codes were being changed, as they are periodically. A Diet Pepsi can rested on one of the consoles. Five miles away from Tango Zero, a Minuteman III "floats" in a vertical underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the President Saw: A Nation Coming Into Its Own | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...President were to begin launch procedures, he would signal the Strategic Air Command headquarters near Omaha, which would send messages with an "enabling code" to places like Tango Zero. The enabling code allows the missiles to be unlocked. MacKinnon and Griffin then open a red metal box containing a book that verifies the code received, along with two small keys. The six-figure code is dialed into a machine, and the missile's "safety" removed. Standing 12 ft. apart, the two crewmen then turn their keys within no more than 1.5 sec. of each other (it is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the President Saw: A Nation Coming Into Its Own | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Creeley is survived by his wife, Penelope, his first and second wives, Ann MacKinnon and Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and by his eight children...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: In Memoriam | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

Always a New Englander, Creeley, lived in Providence R.I. with his wife Penelope. He is also survived by, his first two wives, Ann MacKinnon and Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and by his eight children...

Author: By Andrew R. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Creeley Dies at 78 | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

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