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...Corbusier once observed, New York City appears as landlocked as Moscow. Through a combination of greed and neglect, the cityscape has steadily obscured the drama of ocean, port and rivers. Until last week, there was not one public place on the island of Manhattan where people could sit in sheltered and stimulating surroundings, to eat, drink and enjoy the life of their waterfront...
...most riveting parts of The Battle for the Falklands are the tales of pluck and heroism by British forces: a platoon sergeant who died attempting to silence an enemy machine-gun nest with hand grenades, a helicopter pilot who flew a solitary mission over Port Stanley, a wounded commando who stayed behind to cover a comrade's escape. By contrast, Argentine forces are generally, and perhaps unfairly, depicted as inept and their leaders as divided and squabbling. Yet if Hastings and Jenkins are partial to the home team, they can also be critical: of the Royal Navy...
...during the week. Like most Japanese executives, his day starts early and ends only after a long night of business entertaining. Nohmura earns $51,000 a year before taxes, which enables him to house his family in a four-room apartment in the outskirts of Kobe, a port city. Six days a week, he gets up at 7 and eats a Western-style breakfast prepared by his 32-year-old wife Sanae. Then he is out the door and into a Toyota Crown sedan, which he drives 40 minutes to his company's head office in a bustling section...
...Arab efforts to mediate the crisis. Through the Saudis and other Arabs, I made this point: Stop the clashes in the Bekaa Valley. If they do not arrive at an agreement with the Syrians, then Damascus should let us move our troops from the Bekaa to Tripoli [a port city on the Lebanese coast]. But I do not think the Syrians will allow us to withdraw...
...thanksgiving service, the scholars gathered beneath the venerable arches of Christ Church Cathedral; then they salted piety with a touch of hubris, praying that they might "use to God's glory the gifts and opportunities with which we have been so abundantly blessed." Later, over Paarl 1961 vintage port, selected to honor the South Africans present, Chancellor of Oxford and former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declared that those attending were the product of "the most imaginative plan, the most imaginative concept ever designed" in education...