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...frustrated as, once again, the Russian government denounced the expansion of the fledgling U.S. missile shield that U.S. officials maintain is designed only to protect parts of Europe as well as the United States. "No one's name [in the Russian government] is attached to it," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told TIME shortly after the Russians released their saber-rattling statement. "It's being reported as a foreign ministry statement - and it's got strange wording in it like 'We would be forced to react with military resources' or 'technical means' - what does that mean...
...sing the body electric," Walt Whitman wrote more than 150 years ago, around the time the nation started to be united, from Atlantic to Pacific, by the railroad and the telegraph. By the end of the 19th century, one of Thomas Edison's lesser inventions--the movies--had given the world the first machine art. In a way, every film ever since has been a testament to the technical ingenuity of America (or of a few geniuses who happened to live there...
...Dunster, many students currently preparing for their housing lotteries are faced with less than ideal options. In recent years, Harvard has done little to combat this problem, even as our peer institutions have embarked on ambitious housing projects such as Princeton’s construction of the $100 million Whitman College and Yale’s extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges. But hope is on the way. Last week, University Hall announced that Harvard would embark on a $1 billion, 15-year renovation of its undergraduate living space, the largest such project in its history. The endeavor will...
...Princeton spent $100 million constructing Whitman College, one of its six residential colleges, in 2007. Yale has been in the midst of a long-term renovation of its 12 residential Colleges that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and lasted over 19 years...
...since the Kennedy administration, federal policymaking has shifted to the White House, and an ever-expanding army of West Wing staffers now controls most of the levers of power. Most Cabinet secretaries merely take orders on questions of consequence, which is one reason why independent thinkers like Christine Todd Whitman haven't lasted long in the Bush Cabinet, and why the Clintonite Robert Reich wrote a book called "Locked in the Cabinet". It's also one reason why Bush installed former White House staffers at State, Justice and Homeland Security, although Tom Ridge quit in frustration once he realized...