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...Italy gave up. On May 4 all Wehrmacht troops in northwestern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands surrendered to the British. On May 5 and 6 Doenitz sent Admiral Hans von Friedeburg and General Alfred Jodl to negotiate complete surrender to Eisenhower. The Germans' only goal now was to yield as much territory and as many troops as possible to the Western Allies rather than the Soviets. Eisenhower refused any deal and told the Germans that "unless they instantly ceased all pretense and delay I would close the entire Allied front and would, by force, prevent any more German refugees from...
Some movie genres will just not lie still under Lawrence Kasdan's knife. As screenwriter (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and writer-director (Body Heat), he has performed deft surgery on the Saturday-matinee serial and the film noir melodrama. But the western will not yield. Silverado sprays the buckshot of its four or five story lines across the screen with the abandon of a drunken galoot aiming at a barn door. Though the film interrupts its chases and shootouts to let some fine actors stare meaningfully or spit out a little sagebrush wisdom, it rarely allows them to build...
...Museum. What he saw was the suffering of people and the destruction of a city. The second view is that of a physicist who witnessed the first successful nuclear chain-reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942, worked on the Bomb at the Los Alamos laboratory and flew in the yield-measuring instrument plane beside the Enola Gay. Later he was the director of Los Alamos. What he saw was the effort of American scientists to win the war and the developing partnership of science and the military...
...exceptional” cases like PetroChina. But the quest to rid Harvard’s portfolio of all evil is fraught with pitfalls. The opportunity to go over Harvard’s foreign investments with a fine-toothed comb may make continued divestment proponents salivate. And it might yield a few more companies that Harvard should consider divesting from. But it would also reveal Harvard’s positions to other investors, and it would set a dangerous precedent. The HMC cannot feasibly operate with student oversight. Continued divestment proponents should be content with CCSR’s new spirit...
...nature of both Harvard and Cambridge yield a local social scene that is less-than-friendly to undergraduates. Cambridge lacks a social scene for students below or just above the legal drinking age—namely undergrads. Harvard bars include Daedalus and Red Line, where the average age is somewhere in the late twenties, serving the large graduate student population well, but lacking the young feel that exists in bars around other colleges. Also, the lack of a Greek life or alternative social spaces severely limits the availability of large open parties—and final clubs hardly compensate. Offerings...