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...MEMOIRS: Mikhail Gorbachev's Story...
...MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS NOT THE KIND OF statesman who could ever quietly fade away into history. The collapse of the U.S.S.R. may have left the former Soviet President without a job or a country, but he has continued to speak his mind with the same confident authority he had in the past, and he travels abroad now with the honor and respect due a ruling leader. Gorbachev has done nothing to disabuse admirers of the impression that his political career is far from over. During a visit this month to Tokyo, he speculated about a possible comeback, drawing an analogy...
...Kennedy School of Government will conduct a lottery to determine which students may attend a talk by former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in May, officials said yesterday...
Richly expressive and almost never embarrassed, choreographer Mark Morris has been one of the most interesting and original artists in the modern-dance world for more than a decade now. In recent years he has gained wider fame through his association with Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom he co-founded the White Oak Dance Project. Their sold-out shows across the country have introduced new audiences to the choreographer's work. Now, after three years of voluntary -- and controversial -- exile in Brussels, this wunderkind of American dance has returned...
...trumpets democracy's virtues, but his actions routinely serve order and stability. Following the gulf war, the U.S. virtually "owned" Kuwait, but Washington did little to ensure democracy's ascendancy in the emirate. Yugoslavia is disintegrating, but Bush has yet to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. The President clung to Mikhail Gorbachev to the end, and viewed Yeltsin as the problem rather than the solution even after Yeltsin won Russia's first democratic election. Clinton's views are exactly opposite. Democracy, he says, offers the best hope for stability, even if moving toward representative government generates short-term disorder...