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...Says Green Cross board member Thor Heyerdahl (whose writings, beginning with Kon-Tiki, greatly influenced the former Soviet President): "Even though ! there are other international environmental organizations, I came here because Gorbachev has the stature, intelligence and drive to make things happen. He realizes that the threat is grave, and he gives me hope...
...literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when he was 55. He was a drinker and a jazz buff, but he habitually cloaked himself in a grave manner (when he turned 60, Alan Bennett asked, "but when was he anything else...
...recent essay in L'espresso, an Italian news magazine, Eco finds this unusual emotion dating to a Pagan conception of honor, in the city-states of Greece, taking one's life was a heroic response to a fall from grace. Suicide represented a recognition of grave wrongdoing, and more significantly, a moral catharsis, the individual would regain his honor in society by taking his life, and would preserve respect in the memory of his name...
...loyalty of staff in times of trouble is any indication of a politician's fate, then DAN ROSTENKOWSKI's future may not be bright. The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee faces the threat of prosecution for embezzlement, and his senior aides are experiencing a grave crisis of confidence. Concerned and panicky, some employees of the Congressman who have been with him for many of his 16 terms are working the halls on Capitol Hill looking for new jobs and angling for yet-to-be-filled Administration posts. Rostenkowski has denied that he engaged in any illegal...
...MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty -- don't stake out any new territory, but rather reassert claims to their favorite ideological and musical stomping grounds. The song Smallpox Champion is about invading whites purposely infecting Indians: "Give natives some blankets warm like the grave." 23 Beats Off addresses today's problems, comparing the private war of "a household name with HIV" to a military battle. The track stretches on for seven minutes, collapsing in on itself in a riptide of guitar distortion over a driving, martial drumbeat...