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Saul Bellow' s More Die of Heartbreak finds comedy in the torments of the hypereducated man. -- Bill Buckley sets sail again...
...ship hover on the brink of disaster. Unlike its predecessor, Close Quarters advertises its own sequel. And that seems well worth waiting for, not only to see what happens to Edmund Talbot but to watch a Nobel laureate, the wind at his back for the final leg, sail...
...unable to match the U.S. or Soviet military presence in that far-flung region. Japan's constitution prohibits deployment by warships beyond 1,000 nautical miles from the home islands except on training cruises. That forces Japanese tankers to either restrict their operations in the gulf or sail unprotected under the dubious cover of night. Britain keeps only two frigates in gulf waters on a rotating basis, and France, which has four destroyers stationed in the western Indian Ocean, shows the flag from time to time by sending these warships into the gulf to provide a display of "dissuasive presence...
...wasn't good," Harvard's John Pernick said. "We didn't sail as well as we though we would. It wasn't a terrible performance, but it could have been better...
...Contractors, Inc., to haul away a massive batch of refuse from Islip, N.Y., and other townships. After being freighted with the garbage -- which was mashed into some 2,200 untidy bundles by a giant compactor -- Harrelson's leased barge was hitched to the tugboat Break of Dawn and set sail on March...