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...decade later, after a stint at the Washington Star, Stacks was news editor of our Washington bureau during the Watergate investigation. His colleagues of those days remember his savvy and energy with awe. "He had the ability to track every twist of the story without losing the thread,'' says contributor Bonnie Angelo. "He knew what was major right away...
More important, he was an accomplished physicist. When he was named a fellow of Harvard College, Slichter was completing a four-year stint on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Slichter says it was this experience that made him valuable to the Corporation...
Aside from a one-year stint as a guest lecture at Harvard, he has been at the University of Illinois ever since...
...celebrate Israel's Independence day and hope for the prospects for peace in the Middle East, we unfortunately find ourselves once again defending Israel's right to exist. During our stint as co-chairs of the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee, we grew used to defending Israel against cynical distortions of history, and often found ourselves engaged in the senseless task of producing a balance sheet of Palestinian and Israeli suffering. We had hoped that the famous handshake on the White House lawn was a sign of a new era of constructive dialogue. Sadly, we have been reminded by Ramy...
...important point, the Navy insists, is that the Eisenhower operated more than efficiently. During a busy half-year stint, the Ike suffered no decline in combat readiness. With more than 400 women in its crew of 5,000, the ship was deployed off the coast of Haiti for the U.S. intervention last September; it then steamed to the Middle East in October, when Saddam Hussein marched Iraqi troops to the Kuwaiti border. In December it was posted in the Adriatic, where its jets patrolled the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Throughout the cruise, the ship performed "as well...