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...missiles and the revival of his country's sputtering economy. He did not need the Kiessling-Wörner controversy, which one politician described as "worse than an operetta." Returning from an eight-day trip to the Middle East last week, Kohl sought to bring down the curtain by announcing that Wörner would stay on as Defense Minister and that Kiessling would be returned to active duty. In a letter of apology to the general, Wörner wrote, "There is no longer any reason to assume that you constituted a security risk...
...early ballets of Mozart's time. Before that will come a June collaboration with Jerome Robbins for New York City Ballet. All of Broadway has its eye on this matchup of two tough-minded show-biz smoothies. So far Robbins has made only one suggestion: that the drop curtain be in the form of "His" and "Hers" bath towels. The sense of loss in Tharp's Fait Accompli has in part to do with the eventual prospect of retiring, and it will not be easy...
...when Daskalakis is takes his final curtain call in the 1984 Beanpot, it'll bring to a close the story that took an overwhelmed 10-year-old out of the stands and turned him into an over-whelming 21-year-old goalie...
...about his new passport, apparently looking for grounds to detain him as a suspected illegal. To the official's embarrassment, Mukherjee's documents were in order. "I watched his face redden as he stamped my passport," Mukherjee remembers. It was an example of what he calls "lace-curtain discrimination. It's where you discriminate in subtle ways without being detected. It's in all walks of British life...
...curtain, of course, is by no means solely British. Customs officials around the Continent routinely single out dark-skinned travelers for special scrutiny. Taxi drivers in the Dutch city of Nijmegen refused to accept black customers after one Surinamese failed to pay his fare. Brussels abounds with signs that say FOR RENT with a NO FOREIGNERS footnote...