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...becoming less necessary. Russia has less than a third of the 1987-era supply of long-range missiles. Indeed, the two countries with missiles capable of reaching the United States—Russia and China—have cut their supplies by almost 72 percent since the Cold War??s end. The case for missile defense systems was tenuous even during America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union; today, it’s indefensible...
...Bulldogs despite both teams entering the game undefeated. Most of the former Harvard athletes interviewed come from blue collar backgrounds and some are the first in their families to make it past high school. Amid the turmoil of Vietnam, the Crimson features players both for and against the war??and one, Pat Conway ’69, who fought in it—that put their differences aside in the spirit of team unity...
University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War??one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night...
...crude to expect progress toward peace (or pacifism) from yesterday’s modest tribute to our soldiers. But it should be clear that to combine this holiday’s solemn, sometimes effusive remembrance with active, objective consideration of war??and the hope for the future reduction of its dire consequences—does not in any way diminish the respect that is due to the veteran. If anything, it assigns greater importance to the historical and political significance of war and the military...
...trailer, entitled “Last Day,” features cinematic shots of thoughtful computer-rendered soldiers as they cast their final glances at an idyllic landscape before embarking on a subterranean mission against an unseen alien foe. Much like the first “Gears of War?? commercial, which was set to Gary Jules’s haunting cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World,” this preview relies heavily on a song—DeVotchKa’s “How It Ends,” which...