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Harvard's globe-trotting Classics basketball team will venture anew into foreign lands when they journey to Austria and Denmark in the upcoming spring break...
Isak Dinesen by Judith Thurman. Karen Blixen, a modern Scheherazade, lived as a baroness in Denmark and a farmer in Africa; along the way she produced haunting stories, none more complex and intriguing than the one of her own life...
...signs of a softening in West European support for the U.S. position could be both divisive and dangerous, but many leaders in the alliance are also concerned about the political cost of ignoring any proposal that could break the deadlock in the arms talks. In Copenhagen, Denmark's parliament has voted to freeze a $6 million contribution to NATO earmarked for the construction of new missile sites, causing considerable embarrassment for Conservative Prime Minister Poul Schlüter. During an acrimonious debate over nuclear policy in Britain's House of Commons, leaders of the Labor opposition charged Prime...
Meanwhile, organizers of the West European peace movement already talk of major protests across the Continent in the months leading up to the first missile deployment. Last week demonstrators were once again out in force in West Germany and Denmark. In Britain, 30,000 women joined hands to form a nine-mile "ring of peace" around a Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London, that has been designated as a site for cruise missiles. There to record the scuffles between demonstrators and police was a Soviet television crew. Said a senior U.S. State Department official...
Right now he is a busy young god. He is the author of a new book, Far from Denmark (Little, Brown; $24.95), part autobiography, part candid, intelligent comment on performing and choreographing. In the past five years he has become an accomplished dance maker. In the next few months he will be completing new works for the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Hartford Ballet, as well as for City Ballet. This week the curtain goes up at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on his first attempt at Broadway choreography: the dances in a revival of George Balanchine...