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...century. He was asked why he had done that, and he replied: 'It popped into my head.' No machine, no electronic wizardry, can replace the single act of creation, the inspired moment that arrives in its own time, at its own speed, and from its own, unknown source. It is what drives all the rest. Regardless of how technology increases the speed, the volume and the nature of communication, the value of the content-the very essence-will begin and end with the creative personality...
...address its graduates out of fear that the Warsaw government would not allow him to return home. President Derek Bok read portions of Walesa's speech, which had been delivered to the U.S. embassy in Warsaw and sent on to Harvard. "Almost daily I receive letters from unknown friends in your country, cards with wishes and expressions of good cheer. I have pondered what could link people living in such different political and social systems and so far from each other. What could link workers of the Gdansk shipyard and the scholarly community of Harvard University? I believe that...
...Dodger organization? The answer was that he had a broken neck. That is, without realizing it, he had two crushed vertebrae that pinched a nerve in his neck and numbed his right arm. On his own he underwent a spinal fusion in 1978. How Kittle was injured is still unknown. "But it must have been playing baseball," he says, "because I don't remember being hit by a car." This is how he talks...
Whether the Soviets are ready to bargain in good faith is the great unknown. Their warmer rhetoric may be nothing more than propaganda. But it is conceivable that Andropov is setting the stage for a more flexible negotiating position before the U.S. deploys its Pershing II and cruise missiles. "The signal they are sending is that they want to improve a bad relationship," commented a source at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. "But it doesn't mean they are willing to change their policies. We'll have to wait...
...satellites to beam down a hurricane on Colombia (where, he notes wryly, "coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown element-cigarette tar!-that Superman turns bad and fights the still good Clark Kent to the death and beyond...