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...control negotiators, Viktor Karpov, 57, and Yuli Kvitsinsky, 49. K. & K. have been a team at superpower arms talks since 1982, but U.S. observers have recently spotted below-the-surface tension between the two. Karpov, the chief negotiator at the Geneva arms talks, is a bluff, methodical diplomat, a prot??gé of Gromyko's with ties to the military and the Kremlin Old Guard. Kvitsinsky, who runs the subordinate space-weapons talks, is closer to the upwardly mobile Soviet technocrats who are being promoted by Gorbachev. While Karpov played a prominent role in hammering out both the SALT...
...School student. After the 1980 election, Stockman was so little known in the Reagan camp that he was not invited to the President-elect's major planning sessions in Los Angeles. But Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, then a mentor of Stockman's, brought along a memo his prot??gé had written called "Avoiding a G.O.P. Economic Dunkirk" and recommended him as Budget Director...
Appropriately, South Africa's best-known churchman today is a Huddleston prot??gé, Desmond Tutu. Impressed by Huddleston's work on behalf of the country's oppressed, Tutu abandoned a career as a schoolteacher to enter the Anglican church in 1958 and study for the priesthood. He worked in parishes in Britain and in 1978 was appointed a bishop in Lesotho. That same year he was named general secretary of the 13 million-member South African Council of Churches (SACC). In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his antiapartheid efforts, and this year he became the first...
...Wojtyla declined to embrace change uncritically, prefiguring a lifelong love-hate relationship with the modern era in a speech describing it as "new in good [and] new in evil." After the council, he was elected to an important position in the Bishops' Synod and was later regarded as a prot??gé of Pope Paul VI. Yet after Paul died in 1978 and his successor John Paul I succumbed to a heart attack only 34 days into his papacy, Wojtyla was so oblivious to his impending fate that he spent the first day of the new papal conclave nonchalantly browsing through...
...series’ first-ever installment, by übermensch Chabon himself, shows the passing of the golden key that confers powers from the Escapist to a prot??©gé who takes on his mentor’s mantle. Again, the creator utilizes a familiar form in an unconventional fashion in order to mock conventions while still honoring them...