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...Harvard team, composed of Sheel C. Ganatra ’06, Nikita Rozenblyum ’06 and Ivan Z. Corwin ’06 received the top honors on Tuesday—an “outstanding” ranking—along with 15 other undergraduate teams for the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling...
Bush says he'll explore every nonviolent means to prevent war with Iraq. During the Cuban missile crisis 40 years ago, J.F.K. and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev negotiated and compromised. Result: no war. It will be interesting to see whether Bush is a man of his word and follows through on his rhetoric. DAN MORIARTY Newport, Minn...
...June 1961, less than two months after the CIA disaster in Cuba, President Kennedy journeyed to Vienna to meet with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev, who was built along the lines of a Soviet tank, sized up the slender young American President and mistakenly assumed he could be pushed around. Knowing that J.F.K. was still reeling from the CIA's failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, he threatened to move against Berlin. "It will be a cold winter," Kennedy said. As matters turned out, it was a cold October the next year. Emboldened by the U.S. defeat...
Still, in one particular form of journalism--Washington-based newspaper coverage of the decisions, motives and actions of major governmental figures--Reston was for two decades after World War II a truly dominant figure. When the new President, John Kennedy, came out of a harrowing meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, he went straight to a prearranged session with Reston to discuss Khrushchev's apparent threat of a nuclear showdown. In the months between that meeting and the Cuban missile crisis, Reston's reporting played the role it often had since the 1940s: it was the most authoritative...
...year, tax free, depending on experience. But the hours are long. If one is to judge by the past inspection campaign in Iraq, from 1991 to 1998, inspectors won't get many breaks during their one-to four-month stints in the field. Plus, it's stressful work. Says Nikita Smidovich, UNMOVIC's training chief: "We tell our inspectors that their job is to collect data, period." But the team members know that peace is at stake. Says Jacques Baute, a French former physics professor and weapons expert who is now the chief nuclear inspector: "We have to be more...