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Just then, a visitor walks in, a chubby man with the kind of short, wire- brush haircut that has been out so long it is back in again in certain regions of New York City and Los Angeles. He is Ray Judd, a colleague from the days when the concrete business was populated by honorable men. "Ray had a place up near Luray, but we didn't used to compete," Harper reminisces. "We even traded molds. Nowadays the competition won't even tell you where they buy theirs. I think it's time to get out of this business...
Although he would like to see Afghanistan and other instances of Soviet political aggression discussed at the talks, Pipes said Gorbachev will probably "brush these things aside" in favor of his own preferred agenda...
...stunned him in 1979. Once a little pudgy, his short frame is now trim. But he does not dress to show it off: his clothing, like his manner, is no- nonsense informal and definitely not extravagant. Jewish by birth but not religious, Sondheim became no more so through his brush with death. Of the idea of an afterlife, he says, "I never think about it." But after years of brooding intensity and frequent suspicion of the larger world, he seems to have achieved a midlife serenity. Formerly a renowned partygiver, Sondheim is a homebody these days, and fretted aloud that...
...children whose parents rarely make it home in time to tell bedtime stories, Lewis Galoob offers Dozzzy ($60), a blue-pajamaed doll stuffed with a tape recorder that is activated when a child squeezes its hand. The doll supervises the bedtime ritual: "Did you remember to brush your teeth?" and "Is the light turned out?" As it asks about the child's day, the questions are punctuated with suggestive yawns. To spare the batteries, a microprocessor tells the doll to turn itself off once the child falls asleep and stops squeezing the toy. The bedtime companion comes in two forms...
...hockey team has made the NCAAs 11 times in the last 30 years, and twice made the final game this decade, but has always come up empty. In fact, the Crimson icemen's 6-5 finalsloss to Michigan St. two years ago in Providenceprobably ranks as Harvard's closest brush with atitle since ought-four...