Word: friendships
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...served as Yeltsin's patron and mentor. During the 1970s, Yeltsin was party secretary of Sverdlovsk (pop. 1.4 million), 850 miles east of Moscow, and thus came to know Gorbachev, his counterpart in the city of Stavropol. When Gorbachev became party secretary in charge of agriculture in 1978, the friendship blossomed; whenever the two met, Yeltsin later related, "we would embrace warmly." In 1985 Gorbachev tapped him to be the clean broom needed to sweep out the corruption in the Moscow city party organization. Yeltsin handled the task with such verve, poking into the corners of public services and firing...
Through all of their fighting, the two antagonists have forged a close friendship. Next year, Montalbano way return to Harvard to work as Wheaton's assistant coach, leading the JV program and working with her successor at the varsity sweeper position...
Speaking after Tutu, journalist Donald J. Woods--whose friendship with the late Black South African leader Stephen Biko is the subject of Cry Freedom--said the symbolic effect of Harvard's divestment would be even more important than its impact on the country's economy...
...demonstration of the trust that blossomed from their friendship occurred during a London meeting last August. Panama's Manuel Noriega wanted diplomatic , relations with Moscow. Pavlov asked Aronson's advice, which was predictably negative, and the Soviets passed. In the Reagan years, it is unlikely that Moscow would have forgone such an advantageous diplomatic move simply because of U.S. sensibilities. Like many such small gestures, that one too registered on Bush's calculus of Washington's stake in Gorbachev's success...
Lynch's true dream upstaged the real-life dramas from Eastern Europe that the festival had shown as a tribute to glasnost. The jury, headed by director Bernardo Bertolucci, did bestow subsidiary awards to films whose politics complemented their aesthetics. Taxi Blues, a Soviet-French coproduction about the convulsive friendship of a Moscow cabdriver and a Jewish jazz saxophonist, won the director's prize for Pavel Lounguine. Krystyna Janda was named best actress for her role as a woman undergoing state torture in Ryszard Bugajski's The Interrogation, a harrowing babes-in-bondage film that the Poles had suppressed since...