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...Pentagon sees the Trident II as a crucial component of the U.S. arsenal for the 1990s because, like its predecessors, its submarine basing makes it invulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack (assuming, of course, that the Soviets do not achieve a breakthrough in antisubmarine warfare). But the stickiest and most controversial part of the trade-off would be the limits the Soviets would demand on SDI. Here their position has been evolving. A year ago they wanted to ban not only development and testing but also research on ''space-strike arms,'' a term they defined in a way that...
...Waterloo, as you may have heard, Napoleon did surrender. Oh, yeah, and America has met its destiny in quite a similar way. Having held out admirably for decades, the U.S. has at last fully succumbed to the charms of the stickiest thing to come out of Scandinavia since the sauna. When 14-time Oscar nominee Meryl Streep is in 3,000 cinemas nationwide singing Dancing Queen, it's time to break out ze white flag, mes fr?...
...stickiest situations facing the new president will be redefining her office’s role in relation to the faculty. Harvard’s radically decentralized structure overly empowers its faculties and inhibits reform, encouraging wide disparities in funding among schools, and promoting internecine squabbling over major initiatives. Managing this entrenched academic sphere was the puzzle that cost Summers...
...methods-based classes of the Core. No doubt, many professors will not be pleased. Core professors stand to lose their built-in supply of students, and the committee did little to explicitly define what a general education looks like other than to highlight interdisciplinarity. At future faculty meetings, the stickiest point will be the three-by-three system—as many faculty members will likely object to a general education structure that doesn’t explicitly require math, or life sciences, or moral reasoning, or foreign cultures. But the answer is simple. If professors teach their courses well...
...imagine what it's like to be Huang Yan. It's her job to create that city out of present-day Beijing. As Deputy Head of the city's Urban Planning Commission and a key player in preparations for the 2008 Olympics, Huang is taking on the country's stickiest development problems-migration, pollution, corruption-and its deepest ambitions: to be modern, prosperous and globally respected. Huang, 40, is a new kind of bureaucrat. The English-speaking architect, trained in Belgium, Germany and China, is not a Communist Party member. She is striving "to bring fresh air" to China...