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...This romance began 18 months ago, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say, during a visit by Havel to Washington. Havel told the Czech-born secretary of state that he would like her to replace him as president of the Czech Republic. But Albright, less than halfway through her new job, demurred. Although Havel retains only a moral authority in the Czech Republic, the presidency being now a largely ceremonial post, the courtship has begun again. In a meeting last week in Hradcany Castle, former Czech ambassador to the U.S. Michael Zantovsky reintroduced the idea to Havel. "The ball...
Just before the halfway point in Charles L. Mee's play Full Circle, East Berlin police officer Herman (John Douglas Thompson), standing 20 feet in the air on a thin rope bridge, frantically asks fellow guard Gunter (Boni B. Alvarez) if they can "have an intermission." After Gunter suggests that he get to the other side of the rope bridge first, Herman cries out that he has to go to the men's room "right now," and drops his trousers. How does Gunter stop this crisis? Only a rendition of "YMCA" will get the petrified Herman in motion...
...some point during the first morning, McCain waves off into the distance and announces that today "we'll take a trip down to Zebra Falls." The way he says it and then becomes worked up over the idea suggests that the guests will be shooting a veritable Niagara, halfway across the state of Arizona. The new guests return to their cabin and outfit themselves for a safari...only to find that Zebra Falls is a trickle of water that runs over some rocks 40 yards up the creek. McCain refuses to see how small the world...
First-years were issued the lamps halfway through last year in response to student complaints of inadequate lighting. Halogen lights are banned in first-year dorms...
...TOWN FORMERLY KNOWN AS... Halfway, Ore. (pop. 360), last week became the first place in the world to rename itself after a website Half.com which paid for the privilege). It's not the first to spruce up its moniker...