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...Marshal Grigory Potemkin, one of the more artful lovers of Catherine the Great, accomplished many things during his long domination of Russia, but he is best remembered for an illusion. To impress Catherine with the prosperity that he had brought to her subjects, he is said to have built handsome fake villages all along the route of her tour through southern Russia in 1787. Historians doubt this tale, which they blame on malicious court gossip, yet there is something about the idea of "Potemkin villages" that lingers in the memory as a symbol of political craft...
...group visited five departments to study course requirements and teaching practices, part of an effort to better prepare their own students for American university study, according to Judith Neal of the University Marshal's office...
Damon A. Silvers '86, the head marshal, said the counterdemonstrators were "moving toward us in what amounted to a phalanx" and condemned their action as "disruptive and offensive...
Almost simultaneously, Warsaw Pact Commander Marshal Viktor Kulikov, speaking on the eve of a Soviet bloc foreign ministers' meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, outlined the retaliatory measures Moscow is prepared to take in the event of deployment. Kulikov vowed that the Soviets would "deploy additional nuclear weapons to offset NATO'S growing nuclear might in Europe and we shall take corresponding countermeasures with regard to U.S. territory." It was another explicit warning that Moscow is prepared to introduce new missiles into Eastern Europe and mount new cruise-type missiles on refurbished submarines that could patrol U.S. coastal waters. Though...
...Last year the (general) Senior Class Fund was pushed almost to the exclusion of the Endowment for Divestiture," said Lightbody, who as a first marshal will serve in a leader for the marshals...