Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should tell your friend Oliver North to send arms to the good guys" in Beijing, quipped Boston Globe Publisher William O. Taylor '54 to Chief Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee Arthur L. Liman...
Something is abroad in the games people play, or about to go abroad, anyway. Suddenly the globe is ready to play ball, with the Soviet Union leading off. In their hearts, the Soviets probably still think they invented baseball, or lapta, an innocent steppes-child that supposedly predates both British rounders and Tommy John. But the bench jockeying has quieted considerably since the Reds dropped an April game to the U.S. Naval Academy, 21-1, and their coach was heard to mutter, "Throw to second, not first. Second is the one in the middle...
...some sideways inspiration. In 1977 Spielberg told Lucas he wanted to make a James Bond movie. "I have something better than James Bond," Lucas replied, and sketched the scenario for Raiders. The Indy series bears traces of the Bond films in its superhero with an edge of surliness, its globe-girdling itineraries, its villains purring megalomania, its neat blend of macho cynicism and schoolboy pluck. But The Last Crusade has something better than James Bond. It has Sean Connery...
...also believe OCS deserves some blame of its own. Just in case our own fear of making a poor grade isn't enough, we are perpetually reminded that graduate schools and personnel departments across the globe are just waiting to scornfully shove our tainted applications into an incinerator...
...cultures throughout the world. "We are the guardians of a unique heritage," says the EAO's Ali Hassan. Such guardianship is expensive, though, and calls for far more expertise than any one nation -- especially a developing one -- can hope to muster. Saving ancient sites that are revered around the globe requires global cooperation...