Word: team
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavily on the American side of the negotiating process, he successfully relates the intricacies of the Washington side of the table. He describes how President Carter's diplomatic naivete and moralistic approach to an essentially amoral process combined to sink many of his initiatives. He dissects the American team's frustrations, while underscoring Carter's desire "to do more than just dot the i's and cross the t's on a document that would be widely perceived as Henry Kissinger's handiwork." Talbott also successfully depicts how each side maneuvered to gain strategic military advantages in the treaty...
...anecdotes. When Talbott starts repeating identical quotations in different parts of the book, you know his once-sharp memory is dulling or he's simply not paying attention. Members of the Carter administration may enjoy this book, for nothing except its failure to clearly isolate and identify its diplomatic team's failures. But at seven cents a page, those of us who may never push the buttons might as well invest in fallout shelters instead...
...facilities are great here, and Harry will give us guidance now and then if we have a problem," Christopher R. Wood '75 said. Wood rowed a quadruple scull for the U.S. team at the World Games in Yugoslavia two weeks...
...research team discovered a sheep's skeleton and two coins in July as it combed the area prior to the extension of the Red Line. Further exploration at the site adjacent to Wadsworth Gate revealed the remains of a Harvard dormitory with over 12,000 artifacts including pieces of ceramic pottery and galss, many animal bones, and paraphernalia students used in colonial days...
...have the best hitting team in all of baseball. The Red Sox are also in third place in the American League East, 12 1/2 games behind Baltimore and eliminated from this year's pennant race. Admittedly, the pitching is weaker than some, due in part to the refusal of the owners to buy arms and in part to the exile, at Zimmer's insistence, of Bill Lee, who now stands out among the high-powered hurlers of Montreal. Frustration is not pleasant. Someone's head must roll, and Zimmer's, one might surmise, would roll quite nicely...