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...West were happy that the outlook was bleak for a superpower summit after the Soviets detained and imprisoned American journalist Nicholas S. Daniloff '56. That much is obvious. What isn't so clear--but probably no less true--is that that's what the Soviets were hoping for from the start...
...what we're left with is a Swap That Isn't a Swap and a Summit That Isn't a Summit. "There was no connection between these two releases," Reagan said of the releases of Daniloff and Zakharov. "This is not a summit," he said of his upcoming "table-setting" meeting with the Soviet leader. Uhhuh. And war is peace, and I'm touring with the E Street Band next summer...
...SWAP THAT Isn't a Swap has been hailed as a rational, face-saving gesture that enables neither side to claim victory. It also supposedly demonstrates that Reagan and Gorbachev are simpatico in their desire to reach an arms control agreement...
...situation on the other side of the ball isn't much brighter. Crimson starting quarterback David Landau suffered a shoulder injury against the Cross and is doubtful today. That leaves Bill Koehler as the likely starter for Harvard...
When Shepsle isn't theorizing about how government works or testing whether or not he's right, he says he enjoys spending time with his two children, reading mystery novels and following Atlantic Coast Conference basketball. "My wife complains that I don't have any of what she considers hobbies, but I've determined that the definition of hobby is something that costs a lot of money and has no instrumental purpose," he says...