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Maybe the only difference between the new pact and no pact at all is that the GATT accord preserves an illusion of a commitment to free trade. Had the talks failed to reach any agreement, the world's nations would have been forced to realize how much more needs to...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: Trust-Busting | 12/4/1982 | See Source »

English Professor Robert I. Brustein swears by tennis. "Certainly I play to keep in shape, but tennis doesn't really strengthen that many muscles--just some muscles in the legs. I play more for rhythm, and for timing, and simply for the choreography of the game, which I find enchanting...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Sound Minds and Sound Bodies | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

There are a few signs, however, of a revitalization of Soviet studies. The Ford Foundation made grants of $7 million for this academic year, and the Rockefeller Foundation is considering a $2 million program to stimulate Soviet foreign policy studies. Columbia's Russian Institute received last month a $10...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wanted: More Kremlinologists | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

The other important foreign policy problem inherited by Andropov is the Soviet Union's deep, longstanding quarrel with China. In the months before his death, Brezhnev made several speeches that signaled a willingness to reduce tension, but neither country is under any illusion that a breakthrough will be possible on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Changing the Guard | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

IN ONLY TWO SPOTS does Rush trip over the illusion he has created--and in each case the self-consciousness of the directorial gesture, not its content, spoils the effect. Before the play starts, a spotlight focuses on the stage's real rolling un Shakespearean tones what the audience's...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Another World | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

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