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Most journalists discover their calling in fairly direct ways: a pep talk from an English teacher, perhaps, or a stint on the high school newspaper. Jim Kelly got the news bug when he was negotiating a treaty on long-range nuclear missiles. It happened when he was an undergraduate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, preparing to take part in a mock U.S.-Soviet negotiating session on SALT II. "I thought the exercise was pretty silly," says Jim. "Besides, doing the reporting on both sides' positions was more intriguing to me than being part...
...someone who had never slapped a back and who once vowed to limit state lobbyists to "two hamburgers and a Coke." His tenure there is now held up by party regulars as an example of unprincipled ambition. But Brown looks back at the two-year stint as party chairman like an alcoholic at his last binge; he will never touch the stuff again, and neither should anybody else...
Sergei Krikalev got more than he bargained for when he rocketed into space last May from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in what was then still known as the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Krikalev was scheduled for a five-month stint as flight engineer aboard the Mir space station; his replacement was slated to arrive in October. Who could have foreseen that Krikalev's country would disintegrate before his mission was over? By the time October rolled around, the Baikonur facility was on the verge of belonging to Kazakhstan , rather than the Soviet Union. As a public relations measure, space-program...
...winner, Emerson College sophomore Julie Goldman, earned a $1000 prize and a guaranteed one week stint at the comedy club...
...well, has an overabundance of the customary novelty songs ("Big D little a double l a s") and robust group numbers set in town squares. But the show achieves absolute emotional believability in the performance of the title role by Spiro Malas, a baritone behemoth who does not stint either the character's crudeness or his virtue. When he stands alone, singing of his needs, the patina of the period slips away and what remains is timeless...