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Like Dr. Johnson's remark about dogs who walk upright and women who preach, the amazing thing about perestroika is not that the Soviets are doing it well but that they are doing it at all. "We so quickly and lightly overlook the remarkable existence of perestroika and focus on the obstacles," says Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Averell Harriman Institute, "that we underestimate the significance of the fact that it has begun at all." Whatever happens, and whatever course it finally takes, the Gorbachev revolution has already become one of the greatest dramas and most momentous events...
...idea is to spread the water-marketing deals around to avoid a concentrated effect on any single farming area. No one is telling farmers to take land out of production or move to the city. A textbook negotiator, Willey subtly points up benefits that the farmers would rather temporarily overlook: Wouldn't the income from water marketing help pay for new irrigation methods that save water? Could be. Isn't that the sort of thing farmers are looking at anyway, because it can also boost production? Maybe...
...Tremouille and other neighborhood residents have claimed that although Zero Arrow St. would overlook Mass. Ave., it technically would not front Mass. Ave. and therefore cannot not be approved by the board...
...first thing that Broder and the other high-brow members of the Washington elite overlook when they condemn talk radio is the fact that there really are many informative programs out there. Just last week, Yale professor Paul Kennedy could be heard pushing his book, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, on three different talk-radio programs...
...same light hand is evident in the thousands of books that fill his apartment near Central Park. From his 33rd-floor aerie, he and his second wife Janet, a retired psychiatrist, overlook the city they seldom leave. The proof of Asimov's immobility lies in the terrace situated some 40 ft. from his study. Janet tends the little garden. Incredibly, he has never set foot on the terrace, for the man whose Foundation Trilogy centers on a Galactic Empire and ( interplanetary voyages is terrified of heights. He has flown only once: "It was in the Army, and to refuse meant...