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What's in trouble is not so much the Big Bang itself but modern astronomy's account of what occurred afterward. How did the dense, superheated cloud of particles and radiation created by the explosion evolve into the complex modern universe of stars and galaxies...
Yakovlev commented immediately afterward that even though he was relieved Gorbachev had made sure the troops held their fire, the attempted intimidation of Yeltsin's followers was Gorbachev's gravest mistake to date. Gorbachev may have jeopardized not only his chance to make common cause with Yeltsin, said Yakovlev, but perhaps "his place in history" as well...
Their testimony was a windfall for the prosecution. Lasch hopes to use the $ women's stories to show that Willy had a pattern of attacking women sexually, ignoring their protests and dismissing them afterward with the warning that no one would believe their claims. But it is one thing to have the women swear out a statement; it is another to wrestle their testimony into court. Legal principle holds that a defendant should be judged on evidence of a particular crime, not the record of past ones, unless he consistently commits a sort of signature offense. In this case Smith...
...subject at hand is nettlesome. Each is sensitive to any sign of cooling or annoyance in the other. During the gulf war in February, when Bush was delivering a tough message over the phone, his interpreter accurately rendered the words into Russian but in a harsh and reproving tone. Afterward Gorbachev asked an English-speaking aide who was listening in whether he was correct in detecting that Bush's "warmth" had got lost in translation. "Yes," the aide assured him. "It was friendlier in the original." Gorbachev was much relieved...
Paul Tsongas has a sad, hurt look. On the podium he is a limp performer who often slurs and swallows his words. Afterward he has to brace himself for insinuating questions about another Greek politician from Massachusetts, the tattered Michael Dukakis. On top of all that, Tsongas must assure voters he has really licked the cancer that led him to retire from the U.S. Senate seven years ago. Why on earth is this man running for President...