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...nouns. In the 1930s, F.D.R. fought a war on crime. Lyndon Johnson launched a war on poverty in 1964. In the '70s, Richard Nixon started wars on cancer and, most memorably, on drugs. "The irony is that all of these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called...
...references Abu Ghraib and includes a female soldier with a disturbingly Lynndie England--ish streak. An insurgent is hit by a projectile that vaporizes him from the waist up; his legs totter a few ghastly steps before collapsing. All this was nearly too much even for executive producer Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) when FX pitched him the idea. The show, he worried, "would by its very nature tend to be political if not politicized." He finally decided that the basic human drama was like that in his cop shows, and the content was ugly but necessary. "Without...
Buehrens will begin his new appointment in September, working with University Provost Steven E. Hyman to provide oversight for a variety of initiatives that span the University...
...honorary knight, Berwick will join such Americans as Bill Gates, Class of 1977; Steven Spielberg; Alan Greenspan; Rudy Giuliani; Wesley Clark; and Norman Schwarzkopf...
...victim called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), who responded within two minutes, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. However, the assailant escaped before police arrived at the scene...