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...frustrated defector excitedly explained that he had an important matter to discuss with the Ambassador or the CIA. The embassy's consul, hearing the ruckus, came out to investigate. The man, now desperate, flashed his Soviet passport. No reaction. Next, he took out his military identification card. A glimmer of comprehension. The consul copied the Cyrillic letters and sent them upstairs to the CIA station chief. Minutes passed. No response. The distraught man exclaimed that he would be shot if they did not do something quickly. Then a CIA man, curious about the fuss, took one look at the card...
These days Sondheim has disappointingly little competition. For the past two years--since Sunday in the Park--the New York Drama Critics Circle has not deemed any musical worthy of an award. Next season promises a resurgence, with perhaps the brightest glimmer on the horizon Sondheim's own Into the Woods, devised with his Sunday in the Park partner, James Lapine. Its premise is that the stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy-tale figures all take place on the same day in the same forest, practically within bumping distance. The show...
However, in the face of the cagers' fourth loss in their last five contests--the lone triumph since Thanksgiving break a 86-50 drubbing of a clueless MIT squad last Tuesday--Harvard did manage to salvage a glimmer of hope for the future...
...Chris Cringle" I was able to locate is an inmate in a Flat Pig, Missouri, insane asylum. Perhaps Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion and toy factory. However, experts soon discovered this "Christmas Kingdom" to be nothing more than an abandoned Soviet missile tracking station...
...prison. Each had faced the possibility of multiple life sentences. Now, John would technically be eligible for parole in ten years, Michael in a little more than eight. But prosecutors insisted that the father is not likely to be freed soon. His attorney concurred. John has only "a glimmer of hope" of getting out "before he dies," said Bennett...