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...more troubling issue was that she wanted us to watch it as a family. Have I ever mentioned that I am the only male (besides my fat brown Lab, Otto) among four females in my nuclear family? While Otto and I are adored and tolerated in pretty much the same way, he can always amuse himself during these estrogenic family nights by sleeping in a corner or quietly licking himself. I cannot get away with that, though I have tried. What I needed was a big dose of technology to get me through this ordeal. (Watch TIME's video...
With fall in full swing, it’s only a matter of time before the Boston winter traps us all indoors. Use these last few weeks of reasonable weather...
...exemplary argument for the affirmative: “The US should increase the rate at which it dismantles nukes. At the moment, when we sign a treaty to dismantle, we basically just sign papers and put them (the nukes, not the papers) in a warehouse waiting to be dismantled, which could take now until 2040, because obviously it takes a while to take them apart, without blowing yourself up. Our argument is that it’s better for security not to have a large number of nukes around that we can’t protect...
...negative: “It’s an argument about deterrence. We need certain weapons and postures for deterrence. If you cut these weapons you cut our deterrence capability, which leads other countries to reassess their calculations, try to reach nuclear parity with the US...
...swift as ballistic missiles, as are the curt phrases that punctuate them. Later, I will hear the story of the 1984 Northwestern Tournament from the man who won it, Jonathan B. Wiener ’84. The other team spoke at length about Cuban refugees intercepted by US patrol boats. Wiener and his partner parried with their own counter-plan, but its significance eluded their opponents. “I guess you missed the boat,” the Harvard team quipped. The audience collapsed in hysterics. It ruined the other team...