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...dark, somber photograph showing Andrei Sakharov in his Gorky apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this week. Bonner, who is in the U.S. for medical treatment until June 2, used the occasion to express the "hope that my husband will be free and would enjoy at least the rights of other citizens of the country in which he was born, lived all his life and for which...
...recently pledged an additional $150 million in aid to Manila. "She's surprising us in some ways," said one Washington official. "She also seems clearly preferable to any of the alternatives." That much has been underlined by the troublesome presence in Hawaii of Marcos, whose payment of supporters to stir up unrest in Manila has irritated even the usually imperturbable Shultz. "He's causing trouble," declared the Secretary of State last week, "and some of it goes beyond just argument...
...what they expect, including a fair measure of out-loud laughs. Cosby is still mystified about the motives for baby making ("a kind of erotic arts and crafts"), and he disdains overtly proud dads who believe "mere fertilization is a reason for the high five." Interfamilial wars particularly stir his | juices. "Always end the name of your child with a vowel," he counsels, "so that when you yell, the name will carry." The generations must ever gap. "No matter how he talks, a father cannot sound hip to his children." But he has to hang in there. A father must...
Instructors leading their classes from the fluorescent glow of cramped basement classrooms to sit in circles in the Yard usually don't create much of a stir. Several weeks ago, however, a minor controversy erupted when instructors gave a new twist to that old Harvard tradition...
...idea that a well-respected liberal analyst would launch such a strong attack on the Sandinistas caused considerable stir in Washington. Leiken's apparent conversion was seen by the entrenched left as a betrayal and by Reaganites as a vindication of their long-held views. Most important, many Democrats who had relied on Leiken's analyses began to reconsider their Sandinista sympathies. Senator Edward Kennedy had the article read into the Congressional Record. Suddenly, Leiken became as controversial as Nicaragua itself...