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WHITE OAK DANCE PROJECT. Boston is the kickoff town for this 18-city tour of new works by the brilliant young modern choreographer Mark Morris. The big draw? Mikhail Baryshnikov, who will dance every night. Other cities include Minneapolis, Toledo, Savannah, Miami and Detroit. Through...
...formidably confident Mikhail Gorbachev showed a touch of meekness when the Norwegian ambassador called on him last week. "He came very gently toward us and asked if he could really believe the rumors," Dagfinn Stenseth recalled. "I told him if he was thinking of the Nobel Peace Prize, he could." A smiling Gorbachev later said that he was "deeply moved and excited" and that the honor would provide "support and inspiration" at a critical time in his reform efforts...
Before last week's announcement, one Nobel selection that warmed the Kremlin's heart was that of Mikhail Sholokhov, the court novelist who received the Literature Prize in 1965. He was allowed to go to Stockholm and deposit his check in a bank there. But in 1974 the exiled Solzhenitsyn accused Sholokhov of plagiarism. He claimed Sholokhov had based portions of his epic of the Russian Revolution and civil war, The Quiet Don, on a manuscript written just after World War I by a Cossack, Fyodor Kryukov...
...Soviet foreign policy expert wryly commented to journalists on the laurels bestowed upon Mikhail Gorbachev and in the process proved just how institutionalized glasnost really is: "I am sure he deserved the Peace Prize, ((but)) I wouldn't think he deserved the Nobel Prize for Economics...
...Baghdad two weeks ago, Soviet envoy Yevgeni Primakov dangled the possibility of a Middle East conference -- with both Soviet and U.S. participation -- if the Iraqi leader left Kuwait. Though there was no evidence whatsoever that Moscow's offer had Washington's blessing, Primakov is a trusted confidant of Mikhail Gorbachev's and planned last week to brief Bush on his Iraqi visit...