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NATO's objective has long been to reduce the number of tanks, guns and soldiers in the Warsaw Pact and thus diminish the threat of a Soviet-led armored blitzkrieg. Mikhail Gorbachev has rendered that nightmare less plausible with the stunning cutbacks and withdrawals that he announced at the United Nations last...
First, the Police Department strongly favors letting the community know when crime occurs at Harvard. We immediately took a number of steps to tell the students, faculty and staff that a rape had occurred at the Science Center. We systematically do other things, such as the publication of the weekly flyer for posting in the Houses. We are always willing to sit down with a Crimson reporter on a weekly basis to discuss what is happening. Every few years, The Crimson takes us up on this offer and runs weekly stories, but then your interest seems to wane. We would...
Although always compared to baseball, cricket is very different--in number of innings and length of games. Baseball has nine innings lasting about two-and-a-half hours, while cricket has two innings that can take days to finish...
...students were right calling for Atwater's resignation. Though most Republicans are hardly bigoted, the Republican Party has been attracting an increasing number of white racists as they flee the Democratic Party. The results of this flight were recently demonstrated when Ex-Klansman and Nazi David Duke was elected to the Louisiania state legislature as a Republican. Although Atwater and the party's executive committee voted to censure him, it's telling that Duke says he feels at home in the party...
...Because over 85 percent of smokers begin smoking before age 20 years, and some evidence suggests that the proportion of those under 20 years of age who smoke is sensitive to taxes, higher taxes may decrease the number of individuals who become addicted," according to the report...