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...warmth was still evident last week, as Kohl paid a 25-hour visit to the White House in the wake of his decisive victory in West Germany's March 6 national elections. Before discussing affairs of state, the two leaders engaged in amiable small talk about such things as the heavy rains in California and the recent visit to the U.S. of Queen Elizabeth II. But the Chancellor was also the bearer of a serious message to the President. Kohl's friendly advice: the U.S. and its West European allies may once again be on a collision course...
...going to a bank of computer screens and monitors. In a few cases, the infants thrive in that controlled, constricted environment, designed to give them the best chance to live. But most do not make it. They spend their brief existence in a sterile world, devoid of any real warmth or affection, a world filled with pain and discomfort. In my own view, the odds just were not worth it. I found it impossible to confront the vision of my child dying alone in a room full of machines-never having known what it is to be loved...
While the jumpers were enjoying the warmth and dryness of the indoors, their teammates were braving the elements of the outside. Andy Regan took the grueling steeple race with a time of 9:32.0, but even more incredible was his teammate Jim MacDonald's second place finish. At one point in the race, MacDonald demonstrated his swimming prowess when he fell into the Steeple Chase pool. After his tumble, he picked himself up and continued to run, beating Yale's Charles Comey by over five seconds...
...happens every year. As seniors begin the transition from students to alumni, the attitude of the Harvard Corporation towards its graduating class shifts from casual indifference to solicitous warmth. This year's Senior Gift drive marks the beginning of the Corporation's interest in the Class of 1983. From here on out. Harvard will expect each one of us to give, regularly and generously, to its endowment fund. The irony here is that, during our undergraduate years, the President and Fellows have systematically denied us any say in the way Harvard money is spent--and invested...
...that Andropov was "very courteous," but went on to describe him as "a modernist, in the sense of a computer, in the sense of precision of word and gesture." The party chief, said the Frenchman, made "a cold, objective presentation" that was "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" he encountered elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Others in the Cheysson party described Andropov as looking considerably older than his pictures, or his age, 68, might suggest. They noted that the Soviet leader was tired when the meetings began and that he seemed to have lost weight. The French visitors...