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...striking clip from The Weather Underground, activists bar journalists—“vultures,” in their words—from a leftist convention. The main characters of Green’s film spent ten years hiding from the world. And in a time when even the Weather Underground’s deathless bombings strike any number of deeply-felt chords, Green says he found that many of his subjects retained the same distrust of publicity...
...even there, I felt the influence of the mafia. You see, each mafia strike is a calculated risk, designed to thrust as much grunt work on others as possible, while simultaneously molding residents into complete dependency. The handyman in my building had realized this latter task flawlessly, rendering tenants incapable of accomplishing anything by themselves. On one occasion I was beckoned upstairs by a distraught woman who needed the help of the electrician. When I informed her that he had left for the day and offered my services, she questioned my ability to successfully perform the task. After an arduous...
Rather than adopting popular national diets, McNitt said HUDS’ goal was to “strike a balance where we provide the guests with plenty of options, but they ultimately have to choose...
...solid offensive performances this weekend against Tech and Air Force, despite its opponents’ huge experience advantage, indicate much more than the starters’ ineffectiveness. Walsh really has a fantastic group of hitters returning this season, and the top five in the Crimson lineup will strike fear into every single opponent that Harvard plays this year. In the three-hole, Hendricks showed the form that made him arguably the best hitter in the Ivy League last year prior to his season-ending injury, when he posted .387 average and a sparkling 1.052 OPS (a combined measure...
...when Steve Chesley, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, checked Spahr's calculations, he came up with a 1-in-4 probability of a strike. "It was a responsible analysis," says Chapman. "It wasn't mistaken in any obvious way." There was one hitch: the asteroid's projected trajectory was based on only four observations over a one-hour period, hardly enough to be definitive. It would take another look to nail down its path for sure...