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Whatever his reason, Carter did get a crash course of sorts in foreign affairs from the commission. The commission's voluminous flow of reports has ranged over ocean management, the strains on democracy, aid to the world's poorest nations, and the global energy crisis...
This weekend should prove a whole new kettle of fish for Harvard's hoopsters, as they open their home season against invading quintets from City College of New York and Fordham. For fifteen years college basketball in New York City has consisted of minnows in the NCAA ocean, but this weekend the Crimson cagers may get more than they can swallow of a new dish: the resurgence of college hoop in the Big Town...
...ocean of bitterness, violence and mistrust, Hume stands apart as an island of reason. For 15 years--as a community leader, civil rights activist, parliament member and government minister--Hume has sought to attain full civil, economic and political rights for the Catholic minority of Ulster by bringing Catholics and Protestants together. As deputy leader of the Social Democratic Labour Party, which he helped found in 1970, he now seeks to establish a government in Ulster that would distribute power fairly between the two sections of the community. But first, he says, he wants...
Beards at Sea. Which means that Buckley can be counted on to temper the traditions of the sea with modern irony. The book is full of the renowned Buckley wit. On beards at sea: "Arriving in Bermuda unshaved at the end of the ocean race always struck me a little like the athlete on campus who wears his sweatshirt inverted, ostensibly to disguise the varsity letter-which, of course, accentuates that which it purports to cover: like men's bikinis." On beards in general: "Men tend to look the same. I have always shuddered at the possibility that...
...Cyrano's Atlantic crossing, the whims of wind and water were taken in experienced strides; the works of man, however, caused considerable difficulty. Sophisticated electronic equipment mysteriously refused to operate. Partly in consequence, Buckley fills his pages with freshets of information about ocean cruising. He makes a useful distinction between "expertise" and "expertness." In the spirit of 19th century British intellectual noblesse oblige, he simply and clearly explains marine navigation. As skipper he is heavy on object lessons, especially in matters of boat safety. Two people lost their lives while sailing Cyrano under charter: a scuba diver died...