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...Europe with conventional warheads, holding regular meetings between U.S. and Soviet military leaders, and adding safety devices to prevent the inadvertent launching of submarine-based missiles. The owls do not slight the importance of arms control. They want to preserve existing arms-control treaties and negotiate new ones. They disdain such simplistic solutions as a freeze on nuclear weapons or a rigid policy of no first use. "You can be a hawk and an owl," notes Carnesale, "or you can be a dove and an owl." But in either case, presumably, wiser...
...teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
...which camaraderie with corporate clients was the firm's chief asset. On the strength of his status as former Secretary of Commerce, he arrived at Lehman in 1973 as vice chairman. Two months later he became the boss. Among his deputies was Glucksman, who for two decades battled the disdain of Lehman's investment bankers toward traders. He believed that relationship banking was finished, that profit would come primarily from trading and better marketing and that therefore his "team" should lead...
DIED. DAVID DIAMOND, 89, brilliant, prolific, notoriously cranky American composer of 11 symphonies, 10 string quartets and numerous concertos, ballets and film scores; of congestive heart failure; in Rochester, N.Y. With his elegant, rhythmically dense pieces and his open disdain for more popular, experimental styles ("I hated all that avant-garde stuff!"), his work was alternately exalted, by such fans as Leonard Bernstein and George Szell, and neglected over a seven-decade career...
Still, many members of the homeless community view such rhetoric with disdain...