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...That's where all the newfangled gadgetry comes in. A burst of buying in the past three years has given China a high-tech capability it never had before. China has added quiet-running submarines to its already extensive underwater fleet, as well as powerful anti-ship missiles and top-gun fighter jets, mostly supplied by Russia. In so doing, China is creating pockets of military excellence to address "real-world scenarios like coercing Taiwan back to negotiations or deterring U.S. action," says Thomas Christensen, a military expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taiwan has nervously taken notice...
...Doyle had two excellent films at Toronto, both directed by fellow-Aussie Phillip Noyce: The Quiet American, an acute adaptation of Grahame Greene's Vietnam novel with a lovely performance by Michael Caine; and Rabbit-Proof Fence, about aboriginal girls abducted into white families. Doyle's cinematography is a work of art?you have never seen a Saigon night so seductively menacing, an Outback sky quite that shade of blue?but it is not, alas, Hong Kong...
...abundance of lore that made the other Cambridge so distinctive also infuses this one. I have come back to notice the little things: the Sargent murals in Widener, the way the afternoon light slants across the whiteness of the Memorial Church steeple, the words on Dexter Gate. These quiet moments, outside of the regular busyness of our lives, make Harvard quite a different place from the imperfect institution we talk idealistically and passionately about. And although I don’t think academic robes will be required for dinner anytime soon, I have never appreciated the beauty of the campus...
With the Crimson in the huddle. On more than one of Harvard’s fourth-down conversion attempts, a large portion of the Harvard student section was standing up and cheering, despite Rose’s motion for quiet so that his teammates could hear the snap count...
Summers said Herschbach’s approach to science was “not to sit in splendid isolation in his quiet study but to work collaboratively and stimulatively with students as a major source of inspiration...