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Munns, unlike most of his fellows-in-arms, doesn’t temper his future plans with a well-thought-out alternative to the military. “Eventually I want to try and get into the astronaut program, and most astronauts come from the Navy,” he says. “When I started getting serious about thinking about school I realized this is what I want to do. When it came time to pick a major, I picked astrophysics. I like this stuff. It could come in handy...
...yellow curry emblazoned with a cautionary star (“spicy”) was, at least to my desensitized, spice-assailed palate, only faintly challenging, and had a number of irrelevant vegetables cluttering up the dish (although on hindsight perhaps they were meant to temper the spiciness, such as it is): pineapples, potatoes and cherry tomatoes. The traditional accompaniments, I believe, are tiny Thai eggplants—mini-grenades of acridity, the size of a blueberry, spurting an intensely bitter juice when bitten. But the curry itself was smooth and velvety, laden with an appropriately immoderate amount of coconut milk...
...plight of the 13-year-old bared more than Moose's temper: he was visibly shaken as he told reporters about the snipers' youngest victim. "I guess it's getting to be really, really personal now," Moose said to reporters, tears welling in his eyes. "So if there's any doubt out there what law enforcement is going to be engaged in, what we're going to be doing, then you can remove all doubt...
...more recent perspective of Dickens described revolutionary Europe during the “best of times” and the “worst of times.” How, I often wonder, would such minds view our contemporary world, with its great uncertainties and mercurial temper? How, in particular, would the present United States appear to those for whom the immediacy of the modern media, with all of its faults, and the pressures of gossip in the global village, were unknown...
...Vietnam and the presence of ROTC on campus. Thirty years later, today’s keepers of that flame would rather not lose federal funding than fight for their core belief. After Sept. 11, Harvard missed an historic opportunity to proclaim a shift in its attitude towards ROTC and temper its anti-military animus. Instead, Harvard is now reacting to events rather than helping to shape opinion and stake out a leadership position. It is shameful that Harvard could not proclaim a more noble reason to invite military recruiters back to the Law School...