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Late last Tuesday evening, a plane departed from Washington with an unusual passenger list: two high-level officials from the CIA bound for Moscow. The delegation's mission was straightforward if somewhat naive: give Russian authorities a chance to limit the diplomatic fallout caused by the arrest of Aldrich Ames, the American accused of spying for Moscow. To do that, the CIA officials insisted, the Russians must honor a previous promise to cut the number of their spies operating in the U.S. by half and identify their top intelligence officers in New York City and San Francisco. Most important, Moscow...
When the delegation returned with word that the Russians had absolutely no intention of cooperating, the Clinton Administration's response was equally straightforward. Sometime this week, another plane will leave Washington with an unusual addition to its passenger list: Lysenko, who was declared persona non grata last Friday and told he had seven days to leave the country...
...having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down, then I would settle down." On paper it looks pretty straightforward, but in the song, with a changing melody over changing chords, it comes out as a tragic epiphany...
Spielberg had to strike a balance between a completely commercial movie that would reach most of America and a straightforward PBS documentary. He chose to sacrifice the completeness of a full documentary in order to give his audience a glimpse of the evil of the Holocaust. Some argue that such compromises trivialize the evil that occurred, but Spielberg's presentation was the only possible way to educate the uninformed. It is better that they get an accurate, but abridged, tale of the Holocaust rather than none...
...students disagree over whether Core syllabi consciously attempt to seduce them. Daniel Kalish '96 rejected the idea. "I don't find there's a big difference between Core and departmental syllabi," he said. Victoria Kennedy '97 agreed that the Core descriptions are "pretty much straightforward and honest...