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...have the lights turned on, you’re standing in line, you’re yelling.” And most Harvard students think 10 a.m. classes are bad. But ROTC isn’t all misery. “I flew in a T-34 plane and go stick time and did loops and flips and stuff like that over San Diego and Tijuana,” Brooks says. “I threw up for the next fifteen minutes.” After he graduates, Brooks will go on to further officer training, and by next year...
...help prevent another terrorist attack. None has had to fire a weapon in the line of duty post-9/11 until Wednesday, when a federal air marshal shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen who authorities say claimed he had a bomb, on a plane in a Miami airport...
...Coast Guard suspended its 18-hour search Friday for New York philanthropist George F. Baker III ’61, a member of a family of major Harvard donors, whose private plane had gone missing off the coast of Nantucket the previous afternoon.A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School (HBS) who was actively involved as an alumnus at both institutions, Baker, 66, was the great-grandson of George F. Baker, a former president of the First National Bank of New York whose $5 million donation in 1924 was crucial to the construction of the HBS campus.News of Baker?...
...screens with keyboards, control joysticks and live video images. Video is relayed from a camera mounted on the bottom of the Predator not only to Nellis but also to troops on the ground, commanders in the region and the Pentagon. The crew consists of a pilot who flies the plane and launches missiles and a sensor operator who controls the camera and the laser targeting device for the two Hellfires. The crew members communicate with troops and commanders in the war zone through secure instant-messaging systems as well as radio transmissions routed through a mission controller who sits...
From Hamlet to Wet Hot American Summer, which end of your acting range is more satisfying? I like really profoundly written plays, and I like broad comedies. On some astral plane, they don't seem that different to me. I'm like a musician who keeps changing his sound. Not that I consider myself a musician. More of a roadie...