Word: defection
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...fellow tourists on a package trip to the Soviet Union last November, Ted and Cheryl Branch were a mousy couple whose bumbling efforts to defect were met with dismay by their Russian tour guide. The pair spoke no Russian and had no jobs. By last week, when Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov announced that the couple had been granted asylum, the Branches had become "specialists in mass communications...
Ignore this considerable defect, and you can take solemn pleasure in Director Martin Ritt's familiar craftsmanship. You can enjoy the strong performance by Richard Dreyfuss (as Claudia's public and private defender). You may even smile at Streisand's straining to create another movie metaphor for her own fettered Hollywood eminence. Claudia, like Yentl before her, is a smart, sexy woman whose place of respect the boys in power want to deny. Streisand, who has both power and respect, might be advised to use that leverage on a project less conventional and complacent than this very mixed Nuts...
...TSAT corrects one more defect in the current tenure process. Harvard junior faculty are currently at a disadvantage when competing against senior faculty from other schools. These older outside scholars have lighter teaching loads and hence more time to make names for themselves. The TSAT would prevent such external factors from influencing tenure decisions and thereby allow more accurate comparisons across institutions...
...Bottle-nose dolphins beach themselves by the dozens due to what one researcher calls a defect in the immune system, immediately creating suspicion that a form of AIDS is responsible...
Apparently neither Aspillaga nor Del Pino knew the other planned to defect. Analysts viewed their actions as a sign of growing unease within Cuba, as the economy continues to fizzle and Castro seeks to impose increasingly harsh austerity measures. Persistent but unconfirmed reports circulated last week that the U.S. had granted asylum to a third disgruntled Cuban official. Said a U.S. diplomat: "After 27 years, they have realized that Fidel has ruined Cuba...