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...reality, Shintaido is a martial art which focuses much more on coordination than on combativity. Its presence at Harvard is made more remarkable by the fact that the sport is only 20 years...
...buyers eager for his next tale. This time the protagonist has upward immobility but no interest in drugs. In fact, Christopher Ransom, an American drifter in Kyoto, has only one enthusiasm: karate. He hangs out at Hormone Derange, a cowboy store, and tries to regain his spiritual bearings with martial arts. Ransom also wants to avoid memories of a girlfriend who ODed near the Afghan border, and the presence of his Hollywood producer-director father. McInerney has an unfortunate penchant for Christian metaphors, and his story is heavy with meditations about redemption. A pity; the rest...
DIED. Lloyd Nolan, 83, versatile actor of stage, screen and television, whose memorable roles ranged from the genial neighborhood policeman in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) to the psychotic Captain Queeg in a TV production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial for which he won an Emmy Award in 1956; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...
...discuss in Geneva. These include "regional problems," a euphemism for hot spots like Central America, Afghanistan and the Middle East. A number of "bilateral issues" are also on the agenda, ranging from restoring Aeroflot flights between Moscow and New York City, which were suspended after the Soviets declared martial law in Poland in 1981, to discussing the "peaceful exploration of space." The Soviets refuse, however, to talk about human rights. The American side feels the Soviets are dragging their feet on the bilateral issues, and may be holding these agreements hostage to a broader arms-control deal. The Soviets...
...Harvard's voice would be heard as a true moral gesture in keeping with what the situation there calls for. Students are not asking for a silly gesture, but they are asking for a gesture powered by the backround in which we are acting--the recent imposition of martial law and escalating violence. Divesting from Russian-tied companies would be a silly gesture right now because the jury is still out on U.S. relations to Russia and the benefits of interdependence between the superpowers. The book has been closed on South Africa for Harvard...