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...avoid home assignments like the plague," says a diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Paris. "It was expensive, and the jobs were less interesting. Now it's the other way around." An officer based in Belgrade agrees: "Ten years ago, the problem was: How do you get 'em back to Washington? Now it's reversed: How do you get 'em back overseas...
...Bill Cleary worked for six years to get old Watson Rink transformed into Bright Center. His reaction to the basketball proposal: "I'm not gung-ho about it...Now I'm finding out that it's conflicting with our schedule." He sympathizes with the basketball team but concludes, "Let'em play, but not at our rink." To be continued...
...rarefied company of TV entertainers like Johnny Carson ($3 million a year). That narrowing of the money gap between TV's news stars and its entertainment stars is perhaps only fitting. News is suddenly the hot act on TV. Information programs are beginning to rival sitcoms, shoot-'em-ups and other fictive fare for viewers and advertising dollars. The top-rated show on television this season is CBS's 60 Minutes: the investigatory escapades of Rather and fellow Correspondents Wallace, Safer and Harry Reasoner are seen by some 40 million Americans each Sunday evening. A celebrity-studded version...
...Morningside Heights, along the glistening, lamplit paths where Pacino cruises for the last time. They stare at each other, Pacino now affecting an effeminate walk. They throw down their burning fags in a mutual invitation to duel. Pacino steps out of his pants, urging on the killer ("get 'em down, I want to see the world") who whips out his blade. Pacino wounds him with his own knife and collapses against a wall, naked...
...They were a good team," said Crimson forward Kim Belshe. "There weren't too many high points in this game. I guess we just didn't kick it to 'em," she added. Actually, Belshe was one of the few Harvard high points of the night...