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...have benefited because we have had to grapple with the question of what defense means to us. There was a time when you could only explain our defense forces in terms of being one small cog in someone else's wheel. We've come to the realization that we will never be able to singlehandedly repulse any determined onslaught on New Zealand. The truth is that the biggest threat to our security is natural disaster. So we have to have a real defense capacity to cope with localized insurrections and to help out in the region when natural disasters strike...
...alone may take the fall in court for the disastrous foreign policy decision of an entire administration to sell arms to Iran and divert the funds to help the Contras, it is now abundantly clear that this gung-ho lieutenant colonel was hardly a "loose cannon," but merely one cog in a comprehensive administration policy to subvert Congressional authority and deceive the American people...
Pete Rose banned from baseball? The player who accumulated 4256 hits, hit .309 in his career and played a total of 3562 games? The main cog of the Big Red Machine of the 1970s...
Harvard's interior defensive line--probably the strongest cog in the Crimson machine last weekend--will have its hands full. End Mike Hirshland also had a magnificent outing against the Lions, making eight tackles and recovering a blocked punt in the Columbia endzone for a TD Peter Allen was a capable replacement at end for injured Captain Kevin Dulsky, but the Crimson would like Dulsky's experience and on-field leadership against...
...Sports Information office is a low-profile but high importance cog in the Harvard athletic system. The office puts together media preview guides for the major Harvard teams, keeps the official statistics of all home athletic events, and generally tries to get Crimson athletes into local and national news...