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Even in Moscow, Klein took pictures free of cold war cliches or internationalist pieties. Though with less success than in his New York work, he got his Russians unabashed, not least in Bikini, his 1959 picture of a young woman dishing out elan vital while her elders deflate behind her. Even | Muscovites have brass, Klein seems to be saying. Even Communism has its bikinis. Though his pictures were once scorned as too subjective, they look now among the least predisposed, the most inquiring and inclusive. Klein has been known to call his camera variously a weapon, a mask, a disguise...
This year marks the fifth time that Harvard enters the tournament as the top seed. Such a lofty rating hasn't guaranteed tournament success, however...
Lawrence S. Di Cara '71, a Boston real estate lawyer and 1983 mayoral candidate, attributed Flynn's success to his "down to earth" personality and to the fact that his populist leanings contrast sharply with the policies of his predecessor, Kevin White...
...with his salesman father's Irish blarney and his sermonizing mother's penchant for moral crusading, Reagan articulates and seems to embody values Americans prize most. He can josh with an audience and then preach to them. Self-deprecating, humble, unpretentious, charming and--most importantly--a financial and social success, Reagan stands as the "fulfillment of America's ideal--Everyman suddenly put in charge of the nation's destiny, the good-hearted non-professional with `common-sense...
Some immediate visible success may be less a military than a political necessity for the contras. As Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, if the contras do not have "some kind of success" soon, they will likely forfeit American support. The contras' greatest weakness could be the nature of their great-power patron. It could be that the U.S. does not have the patience to support the incremental struggle that is guerrilla war. And the contras certainly cannot win without outside support. Very few guerrilla armies do. Not even the Viet Cong...