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...Panthers, whom Kramer remembers from soccer season (Harvard got the best of them, 3-0, en route to the NCAA Final Four), possess an inglorious 2-3 record but have some big guns in their pack...
...start of a new religion. Ordinarily, the safari would also enable Stan to indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed in a tribal rite. The affair works its magic, and Millie blossoms, while Stan falters in his search. The warden is killed by poachers, but then a beautiful lion begins haunting the safari camp. The plot takes incredible turns, but Fabulist Ingalls...
...Fermina repented immediately and suffered married life at leisure. In fact, her husband is a good man, and she hardly has a thought to spare for Florentino and his blighted life. For his part, Florentino resolves to keep himself spiritually pure for the moment when he will, someday, possess Fermina; in the meantime, he consoles himself with the physical companionship of women in order to learn more about his beloved. He writes down his impressions and amasses "some 25 notebooks, with 622 entries of long-term liaisons, apart from the countless fleeting adventures that did ^ not even deserve a charitable...
...pragmatism in any of this," says a former Panamanian official. "Of course Noriega needs to go. But, really, to have Administration officials tell reporters this and then indict him makes it impossible for him to step aside." The ex-official adds that whatever other qualities Noriega may possess, the Panamanian strongman has no end of stubborn pride...
...American nuclear attack, whereupon Chinese forces would retreat into the hinterlands and lure U.S. troops into a lethal trap. Mao suggested, Gromyko says, that the Soviet Union then join the assault on U.S. troops "with all its forces," an apparent reference to nuclear arms, which China did not possess until 1964. Gromyko writes of being "extremely surprised . . . because of the lightness with which he proclaimed a schedule of American aggression against China with the use of nuclear weapons, and how this aggression could be opposed." Their talk ended when Gromyko rejected Mao's scheme. (A Chinese official last week denied...