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Reagan's final speech in his current defense crusade is expected to offer a recommendation concerning the much disputed MX missile. A presidential panel has been studying ways to deploy the new ICBMS, which remain homeless after three years of basing proposals ranging from race tracks to dense packs. The panel is expected to suggest that a limited number of the mammoth missiles be built and placed in existing silos used by Minuteman ICBMs. The panel is also considering calling for a new, smaller missile, dubbed Midgetman, that could be made mobile and thus less vulnerable to an enemy strike...
...faculty panel at the University of California considers dropping SAT II subject tests from its admissions requirements, Harvard stands behind its decision...
...issue,” going so far as to say the quasi-taboo word “shma-shmor-shmin.” In an effort to open up the abortion debate, at least on campus if not in the hills, Harvard Students for Choice hosted a panel last Friday entitled “Hollywood’s Pregnant Pause.” As part of Women’s Week, the event, organized by Harvard Students for Choice co-directors Catherine P. Humphreville ’10 and Sean P. Mascali ’08, featured speakers who screened...
...night too. In an interview, acting Director of the Shorenstein Center Thomas E. Patterson called Steiger an “extraordinary editor” and praised ProPublica’s attempts to “address the struggles newsrooms are having.” Steiger will be leading a panel discussion at the Kennedy School tonight with the winners and seven finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting entitled “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting...
...Stephen Hildreth, an expert in missile defense for the Congressional Research Service, addressing the same hearing of the House government reform committee's national-security panel, emphasized the epic technological challenge involved in building a nuclear-tipped, ocean-spanning missile. In the past half-century, only five nations - the U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia - have managed to successfully develop, and then integrate, the requisite propulsion, guidance, reentry and warhead systems. "The long history of ICBMs demonstrates that such success took considerable resources in time, funding, knowledge, infrastructure, organization and national commitment," Hildreth said. "It's this aspect...