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...minds who know the Cuban missile crisis best--including the defense secretary during the 1962 standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union--gathered last night at the Institute of Politics (IOP) to talk about nuclear weapons and the new movie "Thirteen Days," a film which documents the crisis that almost brought the world to nuclear...
...Smithfield contracts for and raises hogs in more than 1,500 factory farms, largely concentrated in an ecologically fragile part of the state. Thirteen counties in the central and southern coastal plain house about 8 million pigs - the majority contracted to Smithfield - and their waste is kept in open-air lagoons, where it decomposes anaerobically before being sprayed onto fields. Those fields, the lawsuits charge, can't absorb the untreated waste - an alleged "witch's brew of nearly 400 volatile organic compounds and toxic poisons" - fast enough. Some of it rains down or seeps into waterways, where it causes algal...
Brown's hopes flickered and died, however, as Harvard proceeded to capture eleven of the next thirteen events, including freshman Ricky Roy's win on the one-meter diving board...
...that spirit of pedagogical curiosity--or of the needlessly patterning mind--here are "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard...
...Bruce Greenwood, a little-known Canadian actor, has made something remarkable out of this poisoned plum. His J.F.K., in the Cuban Missile Crisis docudrama Thirteen Days, quickly moves beyond physical and vocal impersonation to find a harried man in extremis--a young man surrounded by "knowledgeable" cold warriors who have little faith in him. His only rudder is a root belief that America ought not to stumble into an annihilating war with the Soviet Union. From this belief, and Greenwood's craft, a hero emerges...