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Kvitsinsky's American counterpart was Paul Nitze, 80, a grand old man of American nuclear strategy. In 1982 they engaged in an extraordinary, one-on- one mini-negotiation -- the so-called walk in the woods -- that resulted in a tentative deal that would have sacrificed the Pershing II but allowed the U.S. a stripped-down deployment of cruise missiles to counter a residual force of SS-20s. Cruise missiles fly subsonically at low altitudes and are vulnerable to enemy air defenses. The Pershing II ballistic missiles arc to the edge of space and can strike targets inside western Russia...
...Geidt] wanted to show us how the externals of a character feed the internals of a character," says acting student Sheryl Taub, whose character in the class was Mini Affluence, an "obnoxious, gauche casting director...
...Catamounts put together a mini-rally to get within nine, 64-55, with nine minutes remaining, and began to press the Crimson. However, a James three pointer at the 6:34 mark, followed by a Hollensteiner layup off a David Lang pass gave the Crimson a bulging 74-59 lead with five and a half minutes remaining...
Yesterday's event followed a "mini-Tail" held Friday since Tulane's crew was not able to stay for Monday's race. In that competition, which was comprised mainly of second and third crews from the competing schools, the Harvard second heavyweight boat took first place with a time...
Jacobi, a Shakespearean best known in the U.S. for the title role in the PBS mini-series I, Claudius, again employs fidgety mannerisms. But Turing emerges distinctly in his fierce, futile independence. Although joined by fine, mostly British actors -- Jenny Agutter, Michael Gough and Rachel Gurney among them -- Jacobi gives what approximates a masterly one-man show. In a brilliantly calibrated scene near the end, he makes Turing's happiest moment also serve as a sad metaphor for his yearning, and inability, to communicate. He enfolds himself in the arms of a Greek youth, neither able to speak the other...