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...idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it.' CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, dismissing Russian concerns that Washington's plans to deploy antimissile defenses in Europe would endanger Moscow's nuclear arsenal...
...drive-by shooters were somehow never caught. When the Chais decided to flee Vermillion, they could not sell their house because no local bank would write a mortgage on it. So they stayed. By the time Chai was a teenager, Vietnam veterans would sidle up to her on the sidewalk to talk about hookers they had known in Southeast Asia. "I had given up trying to fit," she says. "I was merely trying to survive...
...ourselves,” says Ur. “Which, in hindsight, was a giant lawsuit waiting to happen.”At Harvard, Ur was hesitant to involve himself in the theater community, but taking note from his freshman roommate, decided to check things out. “Somehow from kinda not getting involved turned into a zillion plays,” he recalls. Ur found the same student-driven motivation at the HRDC, but with more self-direction and more funding than his high school. Surrounded by inspiring, like-minded people and given numerous resources, Ur blossomed creatively...
...presidency at countless universities around the country—half of the Ivy League universities have a women presidents, if you include Ppresident-elect Drew G. Faust—but upon Faust’s appointment, the announcement of Harvard’s first female president was somehow of a greater magnitude than those that had been made so many times before, so many years earlier, in so many other university press rooms...
...final version was released in February. Finally, it seemed, the general education requirements for Harvard undergraduates would be endowed with a uniting principle. Gone would be the days of the extant Core’s cornucopia of obscurities, masquerading as “modes of inquiry” somehow relevant and necessary to our liberal education. No more “Lit & Arts B-48: Chinese Imaginary Space.” No more “Science B-57: Dinosaurs and their Relatives.” Instead, our general education would be one of purpose, designed to nurture urbane critical...