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...hours. Islamabad was incensed by what it considered lackluster international sanctions leveled against India for its provocative tests. Polls showed that 70% of Pakistanis wanted their government to detonate its devices. At a defense seminar, an officer in Pakistan's powerful military told the Prime Minister, "The time to conduct a nuclear test is now," then projected a slide with NOW printed in large letters. And Sharif told Clinton, "I don't think I'll last in office more than two or three days if I don't make a test." As Sharif explained to TIME, "The outside world...
...this is to say nothing of TV's power to bring us real-life events: a moon walk or the Olympics, an uprising in Tiananmen Square or Princess Diana's funeral. We conduct not only a lot of our fantasy lives on TV but also our political campaigns (and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which). From the Persian Gulf in 1991, we learned that global TV can even be a means of waging...
...heard him conduct only once, during a program in his honor in 1959 at New York City's Town Hall. What an event that was! Stravinsky led a performance of Les Noces, a vocal/theater work accompanied by four pianos--played by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions. Each brought his own charisma to the event, but all seemed to be in awe of Stravinsky--as if he appeared before them with one foot on earth and the other planted firmly on Olympus...
Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok, inaccepting the 1991 Radcliffe Medal, said he wasnot "convinced of Radcliffe's future as aparticipant in the conduct of undergraduateeducation," and called for Radcliffe "to becomethe world's leading center for study and researchon matters of special concern to women...
...Life in prison, without parole. The defense had argued for a seven-year term with the plea that Nichols couldn't very well say anything in his defense without the risk that it might be used against him in the murder trial that the state of Oklahoma hopes to conduct...