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Understandably, Foale's original crewmates, Vasili Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin, probably won't be too sad about leaving Mir later this week. But even on Earth, their mission may continue to haunt them. Russian President Boris Yeltsin last week raised "the human factor" as the likely source of Mir's troubles. And adding to Tsibliyev's public embarrassment, Russian officials disclosed that because he was guiding Progress when it plowed into Spektr, he may not get his full flight bonus for his difficult six months in space...
...Never, the final detonation of pain and taunt in Are You Lonesome Tonight?, the choir-soloist power of the hymn He Touched Me--his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus--these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas instead of comfortably occupying a niche, as almost every pop star has done since...
...just like Palm Springs without the riffraff"). Stardom, he implied, was just another of life's little absurdities to be sardonically observed and fatalistically played out. As the best of his screen characters did. There's a marvelously stunned stoicism in his confrontation with the inner furies that haunt him in Pursued. And when he turned to outright psychopathy with his child-stalking evangelist in The Night of the Hunter, he made you lean forward to catch all the nuances of his menace...
...editorials in this week's newspapers will no doubt wax poetic on the meaning of Deep Blue's victory and what it portends for the sorry fate of modern man. The work of our hands has conquered us, they will say; our own successes will yet come back to haunt and destroy us. Human genius will be eulogized as nothing more than a complicated algorithm that was waiting to be decoded...
...Young's associates came forward last week to clarify how the loan guarantee evolved. An overture for the guarantee came in mid-1994 at a dinner with Barbour as host for Young at Sam & Harry's, a Washington haunt popular with politicians. Barbour said the G.O.P. think tank would use the loan to pay back its start-up money to the R.N.C., which was then gearing up for the midterm election. Indeed, the think tank transferred $1.6 million to the R.N.C. three weeks before the triumphant G.O.P. takeover of Congress. Young received a taste of the victory in a meeting...