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...take exception to the article "When the Tough Get Going" in the October 5, 1983 edition of the Harvard Crimson. Although the issues are complex, I will try to be succinct...
...such overexposed celebrities like Christie Brinkley and it makes interesting distinctions. The first section's second page offers "Newsmakers," a column which will take you "Behind the scenes with people in the headlines." A few weeks ago, the column ran a short "behind the scenes" item under the succinct headline "Death"; "Actress Jan Clayton, who played the original Mother in the Lassie TV series, has died of cancer...
...known what ground control's commands were. But they must have been succinct. Within 4 sec., Pilot 805 says, "Roger," and zooms after the jetliner. He then reports that the jumbo is slowing down. Seven minutes earlier, Flight 007 had requested permission from Japanese controllers at Tokyo's Narita airport to climb from an altitude of 33,000 ft. to 35,000 ft., and a climb speed is slower than a cruise speed. However, seconds later, Pilot 805 reports that the airliner is at an altitude of 10,000 km (33,000 ft.), indicating that either...
...recent conference of Soviet and American peace activists in Minneapolis put it, "The issue of human rights sparked a heated discussion . . . and provided participants with a firsthand view of the obstacles to communication which so often characterize U.S.-Soviet relations." (The sadistic sheriff in Cool Hand Luke was more succinct: pointing to the rebellious prisoner he had just brutalized, he explained, "What we've got here is failure to communicate.") It is the broken-telephone theory of international conflict, and it suggests a solution: repair service by the expert "facilitator," the Harvard negotiations professor. Hence the vogue for peace...
Montefiore put the Christian's moral dilemma in succinct terms: "For the deterrent to be credible, we must be prepared to use it. But to use it would be catastrophic and immoral. The objection is formidable, but not overwhelming. If it is effective, [the force] will deter and never be used. That is the justification. To be determined to use it in response to nuclear attack has ensured so far, and I believe will continue to ensure, that there is no nuclear aggression...