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Queen Elizabeth II, clad in full-length fur and trademark pillbox hat, landed at Moscow's airport for the first-ever Russian visit by a reigning British monarch. The trip, proposed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a recent stay at Buckingham Palace, was widely billed as a signal that cold war tensions between the two nations are over. While the Queen -- still, technically, Britain's head of state -- won't be penning any treaties or declarations, TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the Pope-style stopover matters: "She doesn't say anything political, but the fact is, where...
...encounter Gus and Ben in the room where they remain throughout the one-act play. They are in a boarding house in Buckingham, England, waiting for their next "job." The way they are dressed in suit pants, their shirts untucked, their ties and coats laying around the room, they could be two travelling salesmen anywhere in the world. As the play continues we come to realize that they are not pedalling a good, but a service. And that service is killing. And we see them while they wait...
...lives. John A. Dooley '97 startseach morning by reading USA Today on the Internet.Angela W. Pan '97 regularly sends e-mail to herfriends and family in Taiwan. Aaron B. Brown '97has set up and run an electronic bulletin boardthat allows 30 members of his high school classfrom Cambridge-based Buckingham, Browne andNichols Schools to keep in touch...
...Warren Buckingham, until a month ago special assistant to Clinton AIDS policy coordinator Kristine Gebbie, agrees that not enough is happening. "There is a clear recognition that the deaf may be at special risk and may not be getting the lifesaving prevention messages their community needs," he says. "It may be time for the CDC and others to say very explicitly to ((geographic)) communities seeking funding, 'You must also carefully consider the needs of deaf persons.' " Buckingham claims that Gebbie would be willing to meet with deaf activists on the issue...
Clearly, more convention space could be utilized. "Boston and Massachusetts are losing untold numbers of conventions because we don't have the facilities to hold them," says Virginia Buckingham, press secretary to Governor William F. Weld '66. Supporters of the 650,000-square-foot Megaplex reasonably contend that such organizations and events as the American Medical Association and the Democratic National Convention would be natural candidates to use the dome's space...