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...five-course affair--salad, soup, fillet of sea bass, lamb, and ice cream for dessert. Castro, who spoke in Spanish, talked ``nonstop, pausing only to eat and drink,'' according to Booth. He joked that he held an ``Olympic record'' in assassination plots against him, and chided Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for being apologetic about communism. ``He appeared to be very well informed,'' says Attinger. ``He did not strike me as someone who was isolated...
...Harvard last week, under the most garish lights outside a discount-store dressing room and stopping to take deep breaths and frequent sips of water, she either gave an Oscar-worthy rendition of a person with stage fright or she actually had it. (Who wouldn't? Everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Mario Cuomo has preceded her to the podium of the Institute of Politics.) She delivered a TelePrompTed broadside at her critics, naming names (Rush, Newt, Jesse--Helms, not Jackson--and the editor of the New Republic). She denounced the politicians and media who seduce and then turn on performers...
...ballerina needs taste and ego and determination. She should be a ham, looking at you and trying to provoke you. Beyond that, the secret is in a fresh way of phrasing, of playing with the music." -MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV...
...sight, he leaves things in the hands of a small group of loyal aides and a Security Council, dominated by the "power ministers," such men as Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch Yeltsin take the lead, then fade, and recall Leonid Brezhnev's lingering, fatal lassitude...
...pipeline that ruptured was evidently the worst of a bad bunch. "It was corroded and had holes all over it," says Mikhail Bernstein, an executive at a construction firm that was hired last August to replace the 19-year-old conduit. Local officials don't disagree. "We all know the pipeline should have been repaired," said Vyacheslav Bibikov, Vice President of the Komi republic, in a testy meeting with reporters last week. "There's no money for it." Rather than stop the flow of oil and lose income, Komineft erected earthworks to contain the gathering crude. When the autumn rains...