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...that he used in Aswan. As occasionally happened, Sadat was brooding about something or other, puffing on his pipe. One could see the dhows on the Nile, the mighty river bisecting a very narrow strip of green and flanked on both sides by the vast dunes of a seemingly endless desert. The silence was interrupted by an aide, who whispered something into Sadat's ear. Sadat rose with tears in his eyes, and I got up as well. He embraced me for the first time and said: "They have just signed the disengagement agreement. Today I will take...
...that is not the point. Participants from across the country come to ply the Charles, and for some crews the endless hours of fall training are compressed into the quarter-hour required to complete the course. The Head course is longer than most regattas, making it an extraordinary test of stamina. The winding curves and bends of the river make the crews' coxswains important players in the race, since steady steering can improve a crew's position significantly...
...Budget Resolution, with which he would presumably adjust the overall ceiling downward. A third option revealed only this weekend would be immediate reductions through administrative deferrals--spending delays that vaguely resemble the (now illegal) impoundments made famous by Richard Nixon. Congress could block the deferrals but only with an endless and unlikely string of resolutions...
...players were new and a lot of guys got really beaten up. I'm surprised so many came back." The law student-to-be does not exaggerate; one of the most vivid memories of the fall was a sorry troupe of bandaged athletes limping through the endless dining hall line for more halibut cheese casserole...
...much American housing, of course, is panoramicaily 11 sipidmass-stamped suburbs as standardized as boxes on super market shelves, the endless Amway and Tupperware America. It may be fatuous to envision new splendors of design in a nation going to condo and cluster. But interesting, occasionally bizarre ideas are turning up. In the Midwest some builders are digging underground houses with skylights and atriums and a thick dome of earth on top that eliminates abrupt temperature changes from season to season. Friends, even strangers, are getting together to buy a house and share it. Under some arrangements, two couples...