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...architects of all this, meanwhile, were at a safe distance in Cologne, Germany, trying to bring Russia into the peacekeeping fold. Yeltsin came bearing gifts for Clinton meant to "mend ties after a fight": a promise of some flexibility on the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty that bans "Star Wars"-style missile-defense systems, and a fat folder of recently declassified Russian information on the JFK assassination. "I am among my friends now," Yeltsin announced, and in return, everybody said he looked great. "He walked a bit stiffly, but he was very forceful," offered national security adviser Sandy Berger...
While town and gown have often been at loggerheads, Duehay was well suited to mend the breach between his alma mater and the town in which he grew up. Indeed, Duehay served in a variety of positions at the University, from being a fellow at the Institute of Politics to directing Harvard's program to train school superintendents...
...take me down." In the slow-dance Got a Feelin' for Ya, she sings about ice cream ("I'm in the mood for somethin' sticky") as if it were the raunchiest ranch hand in sight. This is music for grownups on the loose, the prowl and the mend...
...Venter obliged by becoming a Navy hospital corpsman. By 1967, when he was just 21, he was in Vietnam, stationed at the Naval Hospital in Danang. Venter was the senior corpsman in the emergency room during the Tet offensive. For five days he worked around the clock to mend, save or just ease the pain of thousands of young men. Shortly after Tet, when physician Ronald Nadal met him, Venter was in trouble again, following an altercation with a senior officer whom Venter advised to perform, as Nadal tactfully describes it, "a biologically impossible...
...respect as men. And as long as images of women as sex symbols continue to feature prominently on billboards, in magazines, on television and maybe even in men's minds, females will remain objects. Our society--politically correct and liberal as it claims to be--shows little inclination to mend its ways...