Word: sirs
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...response, the U.S.-led NATO proposal sounded modest and a bit miserly. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe spelled out the West's starting position, warning that NATO was not interested in a "competitive striptease." The plan, which he said went "far beyond bean counting," in essence called for deep cuts in the Eastern forces, with only minor reductions of up to 10% in NATO dispositions. Baker gave a more philosophical speech, but it was thin on specifics and failed to counter Shevardnadze's longer-range proposals...
...Sir Thomas More? A) a man who stood his religious ground; B) a faithful servant to the King; C) a book store across from Au Bon Pain; or D) the subject of Richard Bolt's insightful and entertaining play A Man For All Seasons, which is being performed this weekend by the Leverett House Arts Society...
...answer, of course, is e) all of the above. Sir Thomas More is one of those ubiquitous figures in history who defies easy description. He's one of those wonderful history I.D.'s that lends itself to improvisation...
Undoubtedly one of the stronger performances in the Leverett production is Keith Connell's Sir Thomas More. The strength of More's character finds its perfect match in Connell's heroically moving performance. Connell's More is both pensive and resourceful, decisive and indifferent. The dualities of More's character give the actor the greatest freedoms to flesh out and experiment with an unlimited palette of emotions. And Connell's chromatiac range of expression brings the history book figure of More to a lively representation...
...Tehran, Iran's parliament voted to cut the Islamic Republic's relations with Britain if Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government did not officially denounce Rushdie's novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to kill Rushdie...