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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really knows how to break issues down without losing sight of how the pieces fit to gather," says O'Brien citing Villa I Tatti as perhaps Rotner's finest success. "The organizations he has looked at are very complex...
...really knows how to break issues down without losing sight of how the pieces fit together." --Thomas O'Brien...
...editors insisted they had simply trusted a reporter who had been on the staff for 31 years. But as soon as historians and document experts started to question the authenticity of the diaries at a press conference on April 25, the Stern reporter, Gerd Heidemann, 51, dropped temporarily from sight. He was grilled privately by Stern editors, and last week he defended himself, saying that he was nothing more than a dutiful if gullible employee, not a wrongdoer...
Pleasant as all this may be to record, it does not add up to much. Mainly one will miss the manual machine simply because it has been around so long. We take unexpressed comfort from the sight of familiar objects, superannuated or not, tending to regret their absence even when we no longer require their presence. Then, too, we will miss the sound, the clackbop from the house next door that signaled the Great American Novel in progress, or the Great American Last-Minute Term Paper. Writers will miss their old machines greatly, even as they now flirt pantingly with...
Sweden, meanwhile, is acting on its suspicions: beginning on July 1, Palme warned the Kremlin last week, the Swedish navy will attack any intruding submarine on sight...