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...lack of zeal on the part of heads of the richer schools such as the Law School and Business School to contribute to a fundraising effort which will not give them control over all funds gathered from their own alumni still casts a shadow over the drive...
...lived up to his reputation. At lunch between sessions, Komplektov told bad Russian jokes about affairs with the actress Gina Lollobrigida. Across the table, he rehashed old Soviet positions on Central America and lectured Aronson about the sensibilities of small Latin nations condemned by geography to labor in the shadow of the American colossus. Aronson was concerned that the Soviet tone was changing and wanted to signal that only the first session's manner could lead to progress. When Komplektov did his "small nations" riff for the third time in 90 minutes, Aronson fired back. "Mr. Minister," he said...
Sununu, like Bush, grew up in the shadow of a highly successful father in a comfortable home in a leafy bedroom community, attended private boarding school and displayed nary a flicker of rebellion. The crucial difference is that Bush was heir to both material and social comfort, while Sununu was always an outsider...
Whenever I left the building, my KGB tails would shadow me. I came to know many by sight. When I walked in the woods, I more than once flushed an observer hiding behind a tree, who would then dash away. We were prevented from making long-distance calls; whenever we went to a post office to do so, the phones were "out of order" -- KGB shadows had been there ahead of us. Once I managed to make a call by carrying out a trash can, dropping it off and continuing to a post office. From that day on, a policeman...
...began, Afghanistan cast a long shadow. Increased latitude was granted to the KGB because of the war and possibly in anticipation of the forthcoming Olympics, as evidenced in a series of arrests...