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...Moscow insiders will be joined in Geneva by two of the Soviet Union's arms-control negotiators, Viktor Karpov, 57, and Yuli Kvitsinsky, 49. K. & K. have been a team at superpower arms talks since 1982, but U.S. observers have recently spotted below-the-surface tension between the two. Karpov, the chief negotiator at the Geneva arms talks, is a bluff, methodical diplomat, a protégé of Gromyko's with ties to the military and the Kremlin Old Guard. Kvitsinsky, who runs the subordinate space-weapons talks, is closer to the upwardly mobile Soviet technocrats who are being promoted...
...first act the histrionics of the protagonists seemed at least as tailored for the theatrical boards as for the chessboard: the cool and politically well-connected Karpov, 34, defending his crown in his hometown, vs. the crowd-pleasing, passionate young provincial up for a title shot. Intensifying the tension was old-fashioned human loathing. Long before the end of the match, the contestants were barely speaking to each other, and shook hands perfunctorily. "The best part," a chess master told the Chicago Tribune, "is that these guys hate each other...
With branding time near, the tension grows thick. One waddie fires the propane to heat the branding iron, while another scrapes his knife across a whetstone. Three others climb atop their mounts to lasso the calves from among the dozen skittish critters in the tight pen. One crazy cow, a 1,500-lb. mother with twisting horns sharpened for the gore, tries twice to leap the fence but fails, landing with a thud hard enough to shake your ancestors...
...most likely future "peer competitor" - or give it space to emerge as a great power. Prime Minister Howard says correctly, but also hopefully, that competition between China and the U.S. need not necessarily lead to conflict. But it is easy enough to imagine circumstances in which it might: tension in the Taiwan Strait, mishandled territorial disputes between Japan and China, even access to Middle East oil supplies...
...course, some of the more obvious issues at hand. By virtue of the sheer magnitude of the death and disorder directly caused by HIV/AIDS, I also think that it will eventually force us, whether we want to or not, to rethink the role of religion and religious institutions, the tension between profit and morality in an era defined by global capitalism, and the impact that the epidemic, and particularly the orphan crisis, will have on the international security landscape...