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...women's distance swimming tended to be for second place. In the last 30 or 35 m of a cruelly arduous race, against the best the world could send her, she would surge ahead unbelievably, often swimming the remaining distance without breathing. She was an aerobic marvel whose skinny rib cage could expand a full 6 in.--two or three more than that of other women team members...
...Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Deutch likes playing hardball. William Perry, the Secretary of Defense, is not only Deutch's ex-boss at the Pentagon but also his former business partner. Deutch knows how to make stone-faced Secretary of State Warren Christopher laugh. At the Prime Rib, a tony Washington restaurant, he swaps spy stories with Senator Specter. Says Talbott: "The first words that come to mind when you interact with John: energy, enthusiasm, focus." All that helps shore up support for what Deutch truly wants: a concentration of intelligence-gathering power never possessed...
Students at Annenberg yesterday dined on prime rib, clam chowder, salmon with pineapple cilantro salsa, asparagus spears and Chinese noodle salad. Dessert included miniature pastries...
What they saw was horrifying. Rib cages, skulls, long bones, all piled high in a huge mound. The two walked silently back up the steps. "That was where he really got his political aspiration," says Bob. "He vowed to do everything he could to see that this never happened again...
Goya's picture of a butchered sheep is, if possible, more tragic still. The animal's flayed head seems to be witnessing its own death, in the form of two hunks of rib cage propped against one another, and the way Goya has rendered the structure of dark red meat and the spectral, yet dense and greasy white fat is both factual and haunting. These low mounds of form, bluntly placed against a background of no-space black, come out of the same sensibility that recorded the nameless piles of human bodies in The Disasters of War. This...