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...only counterpointed a new air of confidence in the Kremlin. In 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev continued his brisk public relations offensive by sweeping the cobwebs out of his foreign service and introducing a little fresh air into the long-closed rooms of Soviet public life. In September he managed to trump Washington when the KGB released U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff in exchange for a proven spy. Just two weeks later, Gorbachev again seemed to outmaneuver President Reagan at their unofficial summit in Iceland. The two leaders came closer than ever before to an agreement on nuclear arms, then...
...surprisingly, the comment from on high is right. Out here in the community it certainly looks like something has changed. But the community fools itself to think that the University suddenly has showed its trump card. It is misleading to think that administrators ordered the arrests--after a decade and a half of abstention--as part of some calculated shift in the grand design of Harvard's policy toward dissent...
That is also a good way to describe The Far Side, an absurdist, sometimes sinister world where animals do the unnatural (i.e., act like humans) and often trump mankind along the way. A female moose, in a slip and curlers, hands the phone to her husband, sitting in his easy chair. "It's the call of the wild," she says. As a woman crouches to feed nuts to two squirrels, one of the furry creatures says to his companion, "I can't stand it . . . They're so cute when they sit like that." Larson's humans fare no better when...
...different methods employed by Trump and the city are best illustrated in the building of the skating surface. Trump opted to employ more workers and lay the surface quickly. In a single week his crew installed the pipe and tested it for leaks with water under high pressure. Then, in one day, from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m., 290 people poured concrete until the floor was done...
Wollman will reopen this week, and later this month there will be an extravaganza with dozens of famous skaters, including Olympians Scott Hamilton and Peggy Fleming. Trump, who will be reimbursed by the city in December for his construction expenses, will operate the rink, though he promises to contribute any profits to charity. But he will not come away empty-handed. The renovated rink improves the view from the five buildings that Trump owns overlooking the park. He has also earned the gratitude of city officials who must approve his future projects, including an $8 billion to $10 billion complex...