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...visionary who, along with his administration, saw an opportunity to defeat the USSR without going to war and acted upon it. The irony is the fallout of his actions helped to propel the United States into a growth spurt in the 1990's which many people dont realize he is responsible for. R. Morris Melville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What do you think is Ronald Reagan's legacy? | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...women it was 6 kg.) This enormous increase will present the largest evolutionary challenge to the human form in hundreds of years, which means that McDonald’s is now responsible, at least in part, for redefining the human body. Not even the mighty USSR was that powerful...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Ronald Retreats | 12/11/2002 | See Source »

Throughout the Cold War, the United States embraced the idea of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction. Due to this counter intuitive logic, the U.S. and the USSR were able to survive decades of intense geopolitical competition without engulfing the world in a nuclear holocaust. Today, as then, the threat of nuclear retaliation may do much to prevent a world conflict...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Necessary Nuclear Deterrence | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

...United States enjoyed a decade between the fall of the USSR and Sept. 11 during which the threat of nuclear destruction seemed remote. While the fear of terrorism never went away—it hardly could between Oklahoma City, the Kenya and Tanzania bombings and the U.S.S. Cole—it never seemed more than a remote threat. Sadly, America is in a new era, and the government must plan ahead. For instance, according to recent press reports, the intelligence community believed for a number of weeks last October that terrorists had obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear device and planned...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Shadow of Doubt | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...side of Route 2, an elevated metallic strip of state highway that allows the ignorant traveler to bypass the architectural delights of the Alewife T Station, a building designed with such warmth and tenderness that it would have felt happily at home in Stalin’s USSR. A gargantuan neon sign welcomes visitors to the bowlers’ paradise where for $7 one can bowl two games in a pair of rented shoes that would make the girls from “Sex in the City” green with envy...

Author: By Anthony S. A. freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

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