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...BOTTOM LINE: A sojourn in Ireland recalled, quarts...
When American journalists make the occasional sojourn into the world beyond our borders, they are usually insulated from harm and produce relatively mild accounts of their trips. One such trek has given Lawrence J. Maushard the material for his new book, Made in Managua...
...than the Soviet Union. As a public relations measure, space-program authorities decreed that instead of a sending a replacement for the cosmonaut, a native Kazakh should go up for a short and politically expedient visit. Poor Krikalev got some fresh supplies but no relief. Ten months after his sojourn began, he's still circling the earth every 90 minutes, day and night, stranded 350 km above the planet. He may finally come down next week...
Even so, the current paralysis constitutes melancholy proof that leaders who can arouse a populace against dictatorship are not necessarily -- or even usually -- equally proficient at forming a new government. Yeltsin's sojourn in Sochi continues a distressing pattern predating the revolution: Yeltsin tends to follow two or three months of intense activity with a few weeks of idleness during which he virtually drops out of sight. Whether the cause is simple exhaustion, a recurring physical disorder (there are rumors of heart trouble) or some psychological hang-up is unclear...
Exercising his only option, Goodenough--who is currently Takeda professor of anatomy and cellular biology at the Medical School--enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the anatomy department, and, except for a short sojourn as a post-doctoral candidate at University of California at San Francisco, he's been at Harvard ever since...