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According to Mendelsohn, “the second and most compelling?? argument for a test ban was that nuclear testing increased tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, which was also testing nuclear weapons at the time. Mendelsohn said each nation would respond to the other’s tests by trying to do something “bigger or better...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students and Faculty Fight Nuclear Tests | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Steven Biel—a History and Literature lecturer and the executive director of the Humanities Center—said Pamuk has delivered “compelling?? lectures in the series, which is sponsored this year by the Humanities Center...

Author: By Shambhavi Singh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkish Laureate Speaks at Sanders | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...THEY SENT THE SONG TO ME FIRST!” and went on to wax lyrically, “DRUMS ARE CRAZY AND I LIKE THE KIDS ON THE HOOK.” Kanye is totally right. “Nothing to Worry About” is contagious and compelling??all in all, a better song than “Young Folks.” If only the rest of the songs on “Living Thing” had come close to matching the single’s riotous energy and imagination, we would have...

Author: By Spencer Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Peter Bjorn & John | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...registrar in a town called Totonicapán, an idiot whose foolish behavior led to them cutting off with a machete each and every one of his fingers, sliced off he saw his phalanges fall one by one”—before finally ending with the emotionally compelling??“enjoying...so many festive colors, among the most salient being that joyous cheerful red, as if red had nothing to do with blood and sorrow but was rather the emblem of happiness.” The positioning of the fantastical next to the historical...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Senselessness’ Is Full of Sense (and Power) | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...Friday, the Middlesex district attorney pledged to try Pring-Wilson for a third time, citing several pieces of “compelling?? evidence in the case—inconsistent statements Pring-Wilson gave the police, the presence of Colono’s blood on Pring-Wilson’s clothes, and the fact that the knife used to kill Colono was found in Pring-Wilson’s apartment...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mistrial for Former Student | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

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