Word: coldness
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...electorate or even the ruling party, but the military, which propelled Hafez Assad to power in 1970 as a young air force officer at the head of a peaceful coup. Assad proved a masterful strategist, managing his country's internal power struggles, regional conflicts and the Cold War and its aftermath to build Syria into a major Middle Eastern power. Having used Soviet patronage to build a military capability second only to Israel's, he smartly fell in line with the U.S.-led alliance against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Rather than engage his enemies directly, Assad preferred...
...women that cleans the Pforzheimer dining hall eating food at midnight off of one of the trays left from dinner. It was painful to see the way she was chewing that food so slowly, knowing that she needed to eat but hating the taste of the cold chicken. Honestly, dinner that night wasn't good when it was hot, so I'm sure it was worse cold...
...pioneering scholar who, at the height of the Cold War, first noted the differences between Chinese and Soviet communism, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, died Nov. 14 of cancer...
...words of wisdom. "The particular college a student attended is far less important than what the student does to develop his or her strengths and talents over the next four years." Anna found it annoying. "The rejection letter was just this Xerox copy," Anna recalls. "It seemed kind of cold...
...MDMA all but disappeared until 1953. That's when the U.S. Army funded a secret University of Michigan animal study of eight drugs, including MDMA. The cold war was on, and for years its combatants had been researching scores of substances as potential weapons. The Michigan study found that none of the compounds under review was particularly toxic--which means there will be no war machines armed with ecstasy-filled bombs. It also means that although MDMA is more toxic than, say, the cactus-based psychedelic mescaline, it would take a big dose of e, something like 14 of today...