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...chillingly bucolic vistas of the camp sites today, is likely to raise apprehensions and even yawns. We have seen all that too many times before; next atrocity, please. And in fact the testimony in Shoah (a Hebrew word for cataclysm) does not justify either the film's extraordinary length or French Director Claude Lanzmann's relentless badgering of some of the victims. Still and all, it is salutary to be confronted, hour after hour after hour, with memories horrifying enough to fill a dozen movies. Subjecting oneself to Shoah is like being strapped down for an extended session with...
Apparently well prepared in advance, Gorbachev speaks at length without looking at notes, but takes advantage of translation time to glance down at a tidy stack of briefing papers, underlined with red, blue, yellow and green felt-tip markers. As Gorbachev was answering a question on Israel during his Paris press conference, one adviser half rose, cupped a hand to his ear to hear what was said, then sat down with a satisfied look when the boss had finished. The Soviet leader will presumably use his staff in a similar way at the summit, referring to their briefing papers...
Most people who lose their job receive a final bonus based on the length of time they have been employed. For some this severance pay permits a more comfortable retirement. In the case of Revlon Chairman Michel Bergerac, 53, losing a job was probably the best financial deal he ever made. Last week Bergerac resigned as chairman after Pantry Pride won a three-month fight to control the company. He and eight Revlon board members had agreed to step down to allow for a trouble-free transition to the new owners. Under an agreement worked out with Revlon's board...
Initially, however, the Tigers lived up to their billing. Princeton jumped out of the start with a half-boat-length lead, holding four seats over the Crimson in the race’s opening strokes. But Harvard didn’t panic, and by the time the Crimson settled into its base cadence, Princeton saw its early advantage start to slip away...
Harvard finished in 5:48.2—the team’s fastest time at Princeton since 1995—and Princeton crossed the line with a time of 5:54.6. Over a boat-length of open water separated the two crews. MIT finished a very distant third...