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...also can't believe that my sophomore year is ending. It was only several weeks ago when I realized that I was actually in college. Until then, I had convinced myself that Harvard was an extended summer camp experience which would end eventually, whereupon I would dutifully return to high school...
...acolyte. Three men are admiring their neighbor's newborn son. The first man complimented the boy, saying "One day, this boy will be rich." The second said, "One day, this boy will be a high official." The third, a bit more realistic, said "One day, this boy will die," whereupon the others beat him senseless...
...individual man, and the potential wickedness of collective man. An individual man could become a saint, but collective man was a tough proposition. He broke the flow of his talk only once, and that was to say to the chairman, "Must I go on speaking under these terrible lights?" Whereupon they were...
...This is not an attack per se on Frank Carlucci," said Secretary of the Navy James Webb last week. Whereupon he launched a withering barrage at the Secretary of Defense for his decision to scrap 16 aging Navy frigates as part of this year's budget cuts. The former Marine, in office only eleven months, vowed, "I'm not walking this budget over to the Hill." Instead, he resigned...
According to Gromyko, Mao suggested in 1958 that the U.S. could be induced to invade the mainland, possibly after an American nuclear attack, whereupon Chinese forces would retreat into the hinterlands and lure U.S. troops into a lethal trap. Mao suggested, Gromyko says, that the Soviet Union then join the assault on U.S. troops "with all its forces," an apparent reference to nuclear arms, which China did not possess until 1964. Gromyko writes of being "extremely surprised . . . because of the lightness with which he proclaimed a schedule of American aggression against China with the use of nuclear weapons...