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...cupped in one hand, a ball-point pen in the other, and opened on his lap is a large notebook with lined pages. Occasionally he stirs, his eyes focus, and in tidy, cramped handwriting he adds a sentence or two to the notebook, already largely filled. To a visitor the pages look vaguely familiar. Then realization dawns. The black-inked notations and tidy sketches of winged and wheeled vehicles, streamlined contours and odd mechanisms are startlingly reminiscent of the famous illustrated notes penned by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries...
None of the above, replied the Soviets. As Yuri Dubinin, former Soviet ambassador to the U.S., once put it, "Gorbachev has only one hobby: perestroika." The visitor from the Kremlin politely declined to go to Kennebunkport at all, or even to stay overnight at Camp David. The most he would agree to was eight hours of informal talks with Bush there Saturday. Still, the leaders and their aides did shed coats and ties in Maryland, and Gorbachev told a few of the salty jokes that Bush enjoys. The President took Gorbachev on a tour in a golf cart, and later...
Cohen offers a visitor to his Lowell House room the seat of honor, alias the "thesis chair." It seems the chair has collapsed on occasion, most notably two days before his thesis was due. But this minor setback did not have an adverse effect on his thesis, which helped him garner a summa cum laude degree recommendation from the History and Science Department...
...curfew, which the government has imposed off and on since December. In April the curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet $ searches. Today, if a visitor happens into a place that has been combed by these troops, he draws an instant crowd and a dozen offers to see someone "beaten by the army...
...visitor might think -- unless he remembers where he is. This is Russia, a land of extremes, where history is the stuff of which pessimism is made and where the alternative to the millennium is the apocalypse. Part of Gorbachev's challenge is to introduce modulation into the way the Soviet Union thinks, and talks, about itself. That will be every bit as hard as putting cheese and chickens on the shelves...