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Since taking over the Moscow bureau last June, Kohan has found that Gorby watching is a seven-day-a-week, round-the-clock job. The General Secretary's four-car Moscow motorcade often whisks past Kohan's Kutuzovsky Prospect apartment en route to the Kremlin. But keeping an eye on Gorbachev is as exciting as it is demanding. Says Kohan: "There have been times during the past hectic months of political activity when I have wondered if Gorbachev has not reached a dead end. Then, suddenly, he will pull off a surprise, and everything will move forward again...
Quotes of the Year: Ever since the first Eclectic Notebook appeared on February 12, 1988, the EN staff has searched through several college newspapers for its Quotes of the Week...
...Captain Neil Phillips, starting his first game of the season, hit six of his eight shots en route to an 18-point effort. Dana Smith, who failed to score a point in Harvard's loss to Lehigh on Friday, pumped in 10 points...
Until this week, for every 100 people jostling on board the Continental Boeing 747 en route from New York to Los Angeles, chances were that 90 of them had bought their tickets on the cheap. The other ten had shelled out as much as $866. The business travelers had probably paid $550, the pleasure trippers $362, the bargain hunters as little as $159. The only people who did any better were the frequent flyers who cashed in their mileage and paid nothing...
Harvard will be hard-pressed to match its accomplishments of last winter, when the Crimson racked up 21 wins en route to a share of the Ivy League title with Dartmouth. Included among Delaney Smith's victims last year were Boston University, Boston College, Rice, Vermont, Maine and the University of Massachusetts. However, the cagers' impressive record (21-5, 12-2 Ivy League) and resume of victories over tough, non-league opponents still wasn't enough to garner an NCAA or NWIT tournament bid. (See accompanying story--Harvard Needs Respect...