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Spence refused any comment yesterday beyond his Wednesday statement in which he said he was investigating the conference funding. Spence told The Globe, however, that he would widen his probe of Safran's handling of the initial CIA grant to investigate additional concerns about the grant for the book...
...David Aronow, scrapes by translating "the endless memoirs of people from countries where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying out for montage." In the end there is nothing to cheer for; avaricious superpowers widen the cold war gulf. Lourie, a professional translator from Russian and Polish into English, knows his turf well, and his novel works as polemic and page turner. It chills in any language...
...transaction. When a scientist from India or a professor from Guatemala or a physician from the Philippines moves to the U.S., America's gain is the native land's loss. Since few American professionals head out to settle elsewhere in the world, the redistribution of talent serves only to widen the gap between the land of plenty and the lands of poverty. Worse still, the cycle tends to perpetuate itself: as more people leave their native country for the U.S., more are likely to leave, to join relatives or cash in on connections or simply follow examples...
...Franco-German relationship is, to the Chancellor's eyes and mine, fundamental for the success of Europe." In the absence of firm agreements, it seemed that the two leaders had fallen back on a bottom-line goal: to limit damage and ensure that the current discord does not widen...
...Dover Beach the same place as Arnold's? Certainly the disjuncture between feeling and intellect--or science and emotion--has only seemed to widen since the mid-19th century. The transition from the industrial society to what Daniel Bell called the post-industrial society, consisting of services rather than manufacturing, has resulted in a difference of occupations but not of attitude; people are more than ever the bewildered children of progress. The past year alone has produced enough scientific inventiveness to shake the spirit for a lifetime: the first baby from a frozen embryo, surrogate mothers, genetic transfers between animals...