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...depth of feeling. It is, to use a more-or-less obsolete word, extremely earnest, not least in its relation to tradition. Boyd seems never to have felt the Oedipal hostility to the past that garbled the rhetoric of Modernism. He didn't think of art as a weapon against paternal authority, ^ because he grew up in an extremely nurturing family, a sort of artists' guild presided over by his grandfather, a painter, and his father, the potter Merric Boyd. (The only way to rebel against such a clan would have been to join a law firm...
Some military analysts believe that deadly misjudgments are made more likely by battlefield technology that hands over decisions to computers. Defense officials acknowledged that last week's mishap is likely to hamper efforts to improve the capability of new U.S. weapon systems to fire on an enemy from far away. "We were just really beginning to push beyond-visual-range technologies," says an executive at McDonnell Douglas, builder of the F-15C. "This is going to put a brake on that...
...robber, who police say is a white male about 50 years old, faces a number of charges if he is found, including assault with dangerous weapon, armed robbery, and larceny...
Police found the murder weapon, a K-barmilitary knife with a serrated edge, a day afterthe killing. The knife was free of blood ortissue, but matched the wounds on Frug's body,according to the police report...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a plague of press reports has warned of a black market in weapons-grade nuclear material in Russia. The Central Intelligence Agency claims that most of these stories are untrue. CIA Director R. James Woolsey went so far as to tell the Senate Intelligence Committee that his agency was "not aware of any illegal transfers in quantities sufficient to produce a nuclear weapon...