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...once again as American as apple pie. Or nearly so. Using U.S.-made supercomputers, two Columbia University mathematicians have established a new record: 480 million digits, a number that, if printed out linearly, would extend 600 miles. The feat was accomplished by David and Gregory Chudnovsky, Soviet emigre brothers who took jingoistic pride in beating the Japanese. "They may have faster supercomputers," says David Chudnovsky, "but they don't have our Yankee know...
...because they were Communists but despite being Communists." The insurgents suffered a setback in last week's election of a new parliament, or Supreme Soviet, but Gorbachev still intends that body, over time, to serve as a counterweight to the party. He is pulling off an amazing, perhaps unprecedented, feat in the history of statesmanship: he is simultaneously the leader of the entrenched power structure and the leader of the opposition...
...history's calendar, last week had been circled in advance. It was set aside, blocked out ahead of time for a grand show involving two men who wished to immortalize themselves through a feat of statesmanship...
While the sweet $100,000-a-year job might be a windfall for Rizzo, "Frank Talk" has got to be one of the biggest embarrassments for the city this decade. And that's a pretty tough feat considering the 1985 episode when Goode bombed a house owned by MOVE, a radical group, and burned down a whole city block to bring the city national notoriety...
Whether his congressional colleagues regard him as a hero or a hothead -- there seem to be few opinions in between -- Newt Gingrich, 45, accomplished a feat last week that not many of them would ever have ever predicted. By a vote of 87 to 85, he was elected minority whip, the G.O.P.'s second-ranking leadership post, by House Republicans. Gingrich succeeds Wyoming's Richard Cheney, who left the House to become Secretary of Defense...