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...party leadership. He then nominated Gromyko, 75, who he described as an "eminent political figure" and also, significantly, as "one of the oldest party members." Then came the second part of Gorbachev's surprise. Gromyko's replacement as Soviet Foreign Minister would be Shevardnadze, 57, the vigorous, innovative Georgian who had been named to full Politburo membership only the previous day, filling the Romanov vacancy...
...official in Washington as a "tough and capable man," Shevardnadze has visited only nine countries and has never served as a Soviet diplomat. Skeptics in Moscow have declared that the Foreign Minister's only qualification for his new job is that "he speaks a foreign language -- Georgian." (He is, however, said to speak some German.) Says Marshall Goldman of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "Of all the things that Gorbachev has done, this is the most bizarre...
...temperance movement has even reached that most bibulous of regions, Georgia, where no meal is complete without wine. A group of foreign journalists in Tbilisi was recently toasted with fruit juice, to the disgust of a local official who declared the ban "an insult to the tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite...
Pushing campus borders well beyond the gates of Harvard Yard, Pusey and his Architects Collaborative abandoned the traditional Georgian Revival style--so closely associated with red-brick Harvard--and opted for more modern. Internationally flavored architecture Harvard also began to commission nationally, acclaimed architects to design the University's very first skyscrapers...
...planning to built 50 units of affiliate housing and ground level retail space at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Banks Streets. A noticable departure from Pusey-era architecture, tentative plans for the proposed structure at 8:10 Mt. Mt. Auburn St. call for a return to the traditional Georgian Revival style. That is, if the community allows Harvard proceed...