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...Gaudet, certainly...Down on the Farm Dept.: After thrashing Tabor 17-3, the junior varsity is 8-0-1 on the season. Gary Martin and Jackie Burke each put three goals home, and Doug Horton tallied a point for the--unofficially--24th straight game...The Crimson will entertain Clarkson's Golden Knights on Jan. 31 in its next outing. Ranked second nationally, Clarkson is 4-1 ECAC, 12-3-1 overall...Maine continues to roll along, topping Vermont last night to improve its ECAC record to 7-3, 15-4 overall...
...lengthy scenes depicting Eddie's hallucinations when under the influence of the Mexican special sauce. And Russell's idea of these scenes seems merely to captivate the young folks with meaningless, and lengthy kaleidoscopes of sound and color. Bran Ferren's special effects contribute nothing to the plot and entertain only for about the first five minutes. The significance of the hallucinatory images is unclear, although the director does use them to showcase the nubile bods of his co-stars...
...Japan, kosai-hi is the rule. Top executives are expected to spend up to three or four nights a week entertaining-eating in posh restaurants or golfing on lush greens. When a Japanese company launches a new product, its executives entertain prospective buyers to help them reach a consensus fast. Says Ryutaro Nohmura, a leading tentmaker: "Kosai-hi is nothing less than the lubricant for our enormous business machine, the very source of our economic vitality...
That is where Allen's strength lies. He does not appear to entertain the grand strategic notions of previous National Security Advisers such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as a close aide to Kissinger worked with Allen on the NSC: "He has never claimed to be a great theorist of foreign policy. He has a quick mind and can grasp issues very rapidly, but he is most skilled on the operational side. He is an expediter-in terms of getting staff work organized and of dealing with personalities." Allen demonstrated that skill when...
While the NATO leaders did not entertain the possibility of military reponse, they discussed some risks that Alliance members could face in the event of an invasion. One example: the prospect of hundreds of Polish "boat people" escaping across the icy Baltic Sea, which would pose more than a refugee problem. "Do the Danes or the West Germans go to the protection of fleeing Poles with their frigates or patrol boats, and risk exchanging fire with the Russians?" asked a NATO official...