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Interviewed on Russian state TV, President Boris Yeltsin said, "I keep the wheel of the big ship Russia in my hands, and I keep my hand on Russia's pulse." Although his own pulse has been an international concern since he was hospitalized Oct. 26 with heart trouble, Yeltsin said reports that he needed surgery were "a lot of silly talk...
...OPENING SCENE OF SHAKEspeare's The Tempest, as a ship careens in a gale, a sailor cries, "What care these roarers for the name of king?" In fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...
...early 1985, before the Marine Resources Reserve was established for the Galapagos, a foreign fishing vessel was noticed. This ship apparently had permission to fish for shark among the islands. We were suddenly disturbed by the sight of hundreds of shark fins drying on lines strung above the vessel's main deck. That was only a hint of what the future was to bring. Now, because of overfishing, there is a ban on lobstering and the sea cucumber is threatened...
Currently, both roles are held by Greg A. Johnson '72, who was one of four finalists for the dean-ship but was not chosen by Lewis despite tremendous backing from public service leaders...
...Pillars of Hercules (Putnam; 509 pages; $27.50), Theroux records a grand tour of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Tangier the long way around--that is to say, via the Spanish coast, Corsica, Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...