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...faster and more quietly than any other submersible, which means it has something no solo submarine has ever had: first-strike capability. It can glide in close to the U.S. Eastern seaboard, undetected, and start lobbing nuclear missiles at major population centers. Or threaten to. Being the sort of man who thinks he ought to help prevent World War III, not start it, Ramius enlists his key officers in a conspiracy to hoodwink the rest of the crew (and the Kremlin, of course) and deliver Red October to the Yankee imperialists...
...pervasive celebrity culture, fueled by a smarmy sort of New Journalism, has made Liz Smith, "Page Six" and Suzy more important to the identity and future of the Daily News and the New York Post than a dozen Pulitzer prizewinners...
...would have preferred for us to confront the issue," said Noam Bramson '90, the council's former vice-chair. "The council sort of averted an internal crisis. It might have been a little nasty if the council had met it head...
...Most people who have been junior faculty at Harvard have left. This doesn't mean that Harvard necessarily suffers...We would be concerned if we regularly promoted people from within. As people leave, people come. It's that sort of flux...
...many of the two-year masters students say that the degree will be a bonus on their resumes. Baldwin, who worked as an analyst in George Bush's presidential campaign, said he came to the Kennedy School in part to "hone down the edges because I am sort of self-taught...