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...tales of espionage, Hapgood is an onion-like construction: the author peels back a layer of threats, uncertainties, possible betrayals only to reveal another. It's such an elaborate process, you can almost forget that what you wind up with is an onion: something savory and shapely but rather slight. Which is to say, Hapgood isn't quite Stoppard in highest flight. And which is also to say, even low-flying Stoppard can soar and sweep impressively; he's a rare bird...
...Nations had planned," TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelo says. But the entry of Carter into the Bosnian conflict has thrown mediators -- working for months to resolve the conflict -- for a loop. NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes quickly expressed outrage, but it's the U.N. that has received the biggest slight in the effort, Angelo says. U.N. officials tell Angelo that Yasushi Akashi, U.N. chief of Yugoslavian activities, had met with Karadzic just the night before he made his offer public and "Karadzic didn't say anything to him even though there was communication with Carter at that point," Angelo says...
Officials at numerous Cambridge homeless shelters contacted yesterday said they experience a slight increase in residents during the winter...
...finest late paintings, Eliezer and Rebecca, 1649, was conceived in exactly this spirit. Nowhere, perhaps, in 17th century painting is there a more beautiful frieze of figures than this row of 13 women, whose poses combine classic dignity with a sharp sense of the vernacular. Gravity, surprise, curiosity, slight bewilderment -- a whole repertoire of expression is set forth in their faces and bodies, and by the time one's eye has stopped traversing the rhythmic garland of their gestures, one realizes what a master of stagecraft Poussin...
...great deal of new composite materials that are very different from metal alloys, [and] the price must be such that the customer can afford it," Harrison says. "[A further requirement is that] we can afford to build it so passengers in three classes can afford to pay a slight surcharge, 10 to 15 percent, above the existing subsonic fare of the day for a flight taking 50 percent of the time...