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Cambridge, Mass would become Ridge's political proving ground...
...fundamentalist pressure - as Pakistan is developing an arsenal of nuclear warheads and a fleet of converted intermediate-range Chinese and North Korean missiles on which to carry them underscores the dangers cited by missile-defense advocates. It makes little difference, however, to the balance of nuclear terror on the ground in South Asia. Pakistan is a lot smaller than India, both geographically and in population, and would need a larger nuclear capability to annihilate India than vice versa. Such economies of scale, though, may be irrelevant to the language of nuclear deterrence. Says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, "Once...
...Harvard made some progress away from its old reputation as breeding ground for the WASP elite. In 1973 Harvard instituted an affirmative action program targeted toward women and minorities...
Geopolitics is a chess game, and President Vladimir Putin is a considerably more formidable opponent than his predecessor was. That much was clear Monday when Putin left Moscow an hour before President Clinton to stake out the high ground on missile defense in Western Europe. Some of Washington's closest European allies had, last week, expressed grave misgivings about Clinton's proposed missile-defense system during the President's visit, and Putin moved to widen the gap by unveiling his own missile-defense proposals while on a visit to Italy and the Vatican. Putin proposed the joint development...
...says Eric Paxton Stauder, a member of Dots per Minute, a network of designers that focuses on rave flyers. "Stylistically, you see things in flyers that you don't see other places--uses of line work and fontography. It's open and unrestricted, and it's a testing ground for combining visual elements together...