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Too small for the pros by maybe 4 in. in van Breda Kolff's opinion, Carril embarked on a career as a high school government teacher and basketball coach. He won early and often. In 1966 he applied for the coaching job at Lehigh and got it by default. One...
The reasoning went like this. Despite his disillusion with "Soviet reality" and his aspirations for "humanitarian socialism," Gorbachev was neither Thomas Jefferson nor Vaclav Havel. He was Yuri Andropov's protege, the Stavropol chieftain who came to the big city and made good. He was still thought to be a...
No, this is a story about appearances of impropriety where none exists. Cleary shouldn't have to prove to anyone that he earned his new position. And when he picks Tomassoni, he shouldn't have to argue about his protege's merits.
Other analysts argue that it is precisely because Jiang is weak that Deng has given up his powerful post. By promoting Jiang and then nurturing him from the sidelines, Deng may prevent rivals from ganging up on his protege as he learns to handle his new responsibilities.
Still, it is the later artist who has won a more valid celebrity. This is the solitary poet of the desert, interpreter of bleached bone and sand and light -- light all around. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 and became the '60s and '70s apotheosis of feminine independence. But she...