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Both of us are staring into the flames now and have yet to make eye contact. Regret at not having camped on her doorstep all night hangs heavy in the air. The silence gives us time to reflect: me on all the other times my lateness has been costly -- a part in the sixth-grade pageant, a starting place on the field-hockey team; her to conjure up fondly her own perfect record of punctuality. "I've never been late once in all my years in the theater," she says, scoffing at my having allowed only an extra hour...
BELIEVERS IN A UNIFIED CZECHOSLOVAKIA MAY NOW regret that Vaclav Havel's 1989 "velvet revolution" wasn't the "Velcro revolution" instead. Parliamentary elections have revealed deepening differences between Czechs and Slovaks, thus increasing the chances that the 74-year-old federation will become unstitched like the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Last week, after the autonomy-seeking Movement for a Democratic Slovakia topped the polling in the Slovak republic, the group's leader, Vladimir Meciar, pressed his demand for a total rearrangement of Czech-Slovak relations...
Riding the transcontinental wave of applause and buoyed by his days of high- profile meetings, the ex-President was as ebullient and voluble as ever. He looked fit and sounded feisty. This was not a man nursing a sense of regret or meditating on mistakes he might have made. Though his visit to the U.S. was ostensibly to raise funds and make contacts for his new political think tank, the Gorbachev Foundation, it also eased him smoothly into the rarefied ranks of senior statesmen whose pronouncements are expected to reverberate around the globe. His theme is a corollary...
Given that other peoples of color in addition to African-Americans also suffer from racism and have also demonstrated initiative addressing the problem, I regret that The Crimson neglected to acknowledge the contributions of members of Raza and La O to the HUDP meeting...
Gorbachev said he will discuss his policies in more detail in the book that he is writing, but declared, "I do not regret the choice I made...