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...Egypt and Pakistan all have legitimate security concerns. Yet last week's pronouncements provided further proof of what has long since become an alarming and accelerating commonplace: for large and small nations alike, weapons sales have become the chief tool of diplomacy. "They are now major strands in the warp and woof of world politics," writes Foreign Policy Analyst Andrew Pierre in a forthcoming book, The Global Politics of Arms Sales...
...offers depends solely on his occasional presence as the comically menacing leader of an oil cartel. Perhaps one should say the oil cartel. The movie traffics heavily in this kind of simple-minded paranoia. It insists that evil lurks in a single all-powerful force possessing the power to warp men's minds, condition their behavior and, of course, bump them off wherever they live in the world and whenever, over the course of many years, it suits the conspiracy's purpose...
...team co-captain Marc Chapus, who clicked into warp drive and came up with a new Harvard record of 48.5 seconds, the sprinters swept the event and left the Bruin contenders cleaning the cosmic dust out of their eyes. Sprinters Bennett Midlo and Kim Stevens arrived at the tape shortly after Chapus to claim the impressive times of 50.2 and 50.3 seconds, respectively...
...sleepy little hamlet of Monterey, Mass., tucked away in the Berkshire Hills, seemed to have fallen into a time warp. As the 760 winter residents of the resort community went about their business, no radio or television could be heard. At Millie Walsh's Mobil station on Route 23 just past the center of town, the electric clock had stopped and the giant soft-drink cooler was turned off. At Arthur and Alice Somers' huge Victorian manse on the edge of nearby Lake Garfield, the cavernous, antiquated kitchen was bathed in the soft glow of kerosene lamps...
Viewers tuning in over the next month may think that they have entered a time warp, for the programs seem like instant artifacts of the '50s, when automobiles were first recognized as sex objects and a movie star like Jayne Mansfield seemed manufactured on the voyeur's assembly line. There is a difference though: most of the new fare pretends to an awareness of feminism. It's a Living (ABC, Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) is set in a posh Los Angeles restaurant, where five spunky women try to keep a sense of humor as they...