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According to another top official in Bonn, Nitze told the West Germans that he had Reagan's authorization to pursue "all possibilities of balanced results." The official left the meeting with the distinct impression that one such possibility might be similar to the proposal that Nitze explored with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, last summer. According to that scenario, later rejected by both Washington and Moscow, the U.S. would base 75 cruise missiles in Western Europe while the Soviet Union would pare its arsenal...
...reversing the present policy, a good deal of student sympathy and not much else. Pointing to the statements contained in the applications and the acceptance letters, and discounting conversations on the telephone, the administration--which, it should be noted, is sitting in judgment on its own case--has a distinct advantage over the transfer students. Written evidence, not spoken conversation and implied encouragement, carries the greatest weight, and to the disadvantage of the transfer students, the College holds most of this written testimony...
...Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful Australian director could end up making lots of money and losing his distinct national voice...
...chapel was rebuilt four years ago, a glassmaker from Tours had a little private fun as he created the new windows with a touch of Gallic wit. Flanking Jesus in the Resurrection scene on one of the windows are two Roman guards dressed in gladiatorial drag and bearing the distinct likenesses of French President Francois Mitterrand and Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais. No one noticed at first, and now Father Louis Hubert and his parishioners are content to let them be. "There were a few nasty souls," says Father Hubert, "who intimated that Jesus bears a strange resemblance to [former...
...graceful, flowing prose, Konner sides with neither. Instead, he shows clear impatience with those who are content to deal with human behavior as a determinate product of the two distinct forces, heredity or environment, or some set mix of the two. He sees the so called "nature nurture" mix as an infinitely complex relationship. "Now that the discussion of heredity versus environment has transcended the 'versus,' passing beyond the question. Which and the only slightly less useful question. How much to the mature question. How we must prepare ourselves to face the fact that this last is not one question...