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Marshall, who has been distant during her first year as the department's supervisor, is viewed with suspicion by many officers. Marshall's predecessor, Daniel Steiner '54, knew them by their first names. Few officers have actually met the current general counsel...
...potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today not only has telephones and satellite-TV links, but uses them to wake up the world at the most inconvenient times. Civilization wishes he would hang...
...Western policy planners immediately went to work on mechanisms for membership. First to join would be the so-called Visegrad countries -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary -- probably by the end of the '90s. Then might come the Baltic states -- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia -- and in the more distant future the others, possibly including parts of the former Soviet Union, including Russia itself. German Defense Minister Volker Ruhe enthusiastically lobbied the rest of the alliance to put expansion on the agenda for a NATO summit scheduled for January. "It is in our basic national interests to expand NATO...
...time presented another challenge. While the makeup can only be regarded as minimal, superb acting and costuming aided the imaginative leap, with impressive results. And dealing with issues of women's rights, marriage, gay rights, AIDS, love, and power politics is equally daunting. Rather than presenting them as distant political concerns, the actors integrated these issues into the very personae of their characters...
...real brilliance comes when you pay attention to what he's singing: "I think I know you/ Better than I know myself/But I still don't know you that well" ("Distant Relations"). Hendricks is no Henry James (Henry James couldn't play electric guitar, anyway), but he knows more about why boys and girls can't get along, and why some boys can't get along with themselves, than any other boy in American rock and roll--the dozen or so songs here won't have you singing along so much as nodding your head in agreement. The Karl Hendricks...