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...embarrassing foul-up, however, was no laughing matter for the Reagan Administration. It is highly irregular for the White House to break the news that a foreign government has fallen, and virtually unheard of when the affected country is a U.S. ally. To compound that anomaly by issuing a report that was incorrect as well may be unprecedented. During the afternoon, when Duvalier was reported to have been seen riding through the streets of Port-au- Prince, Haiti's capital, the seriousness of the diplomatic gaffe gave way to a spirited round of pass-the-buck...
...women's Nordic skiers accomplished the unheard-of, recording 199 of a possible 200 points while placing finishers in three of the top four positions. Manya Deehr, Joy Clendenning and Kirsten Berggren finished first, second and fourth respectively for the Crimson...
...Richard's Cork Leg is no exception. Why, for example, is Play performed with a British accent, making it more dry and boring than it is already? And what accent is Hero Hogan (Pauls Raudseps) really suppose to have? Is it Russian, or Irish, or (more likely) some unheard-of combination of both...
...only way in which Gorbachev gave the impression of being a new type of Kremlin leader. He sprinkled his remarks with knowledgeable but unostentatious references to an American newspaper columnist, Third World poverty and the technology of Star Wars weaponry. He displayed a talent for vivid metaphor unheard in the Kremlin since the days of Nikita Khrushchev. Sample: "Certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor, at one point inviting...
...years he had agents scouring estates from Rome to London. In 20 years, 1792-1811, he spent more than 1.25 million florins on drawings and prints, ten times the outlay on art of the Austrian imperial court itself. During an era when "art investment" was unheard of, this obsessed duke put a quarter of his fortune into collecting. He died at the age of 84--"a thin old man," according to an account cited by Albertina Director Walter Koschatzky, "with tired, sad eyes, who walked through the rooms alone, followed by a little white dog"--with more than...