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At the time of Yuri Andropov's death, his unassuming, English-speaking son was serving as assistant to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the Stockholm conference on European security. His new assignment, which needs formal Greek approval, may be considerably more important to the Kremlin. Although Greece is a...
THE FILM ADAPTATION of John Irving's novel The Hotel New Hampshire starts off with all the promise of a New Year's Eve party--the right people (Jodie Foster, Nastassia Kinski and Beau Bridges are among the more illustrious members of the cast), the right settings, ranging from New...
Anxious West Europeans hoped that Andropov's funeral might offer an opportunity for their leaders to broaden contacts with the Soviet Union. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the only major Western statesman to visit Andropov while he was in office, announced that he would attend the ceremonies, as did Prime...
Spence's predecessors in what is widely considered the second most powerful administrative position at Harvard include some of the most illustrious names in academia. Two recent deans went on to high government service.
Before he died in 1912, Widener had collected 3,000 volumes of what he considered to be the 100 most important works in English literature. Whether saved because of their fine bindings or illustrious owners, the Widener collection heralds the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, and various works by...