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...troubling sign appeared just over a year ago. A small groin pull led to a disappointing fourth in the World Cross Country Championships in Great Britain. A month later he finished fifth in the Rotterdam Marathon. His nadir came in August at the World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki. Fighting off bronchitis, he finished last in the 10,000 meters. The gritty and fiercely proud runner could hardly recognize himself. "I know that wasn't me out there," he said. Salazar took two weeks off, the first holiday he had allowed himself since he was 13. Bewildered...
...days later, I found myself sitting in another train station--this time, Helsinki's--gawking at a monitor which relayed time schedules composed of Cyrillic characters...
...Live at Keystone Korner, is selling nicely, thanks. He has also become a musician whose talents are much in demand for session work, as well as a concert performer whose travels, starting last month at Mikell's in New York City, are keeping him hopping from Manhattan to Helsinki to Fort Worth. Home for a jazz musician, it is worth remembering, is the place where music flourishes, which is not always the same location as one's birthplace or current address...
Four years removed from Helsinki, Kurri does speak halting, charming English, learned painstakingly in front of a television set and at the foot of the Fonz. As he explains, "I watched Happy Days every time and Three's Company over and over. In any language, nobody cannot figure out Three's Company." This is the wisdom that passes understanding...
...Helsinki accords divide East-West relations into three categories: security, cooperation and the free movement of people. Wisely, it was agreed that all three categories should be regarded only in context and as being of equal value. Security matters, taken on their own, offer too little chance of success. The same applies to an isolated policy concerning the free movement of people. Cooperation is of paramount importance. If we succeed in extending, step by step, cooperation in the fields of science, food, ecology, transportation, economics, energy and development policy, then arms control and even free movement of people will ultimately...