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There were four of us. All freshmen and all psyched to test our newfound status as "The Harvard Man." Our first stop in Northampton: the pharmacy. The second question (you can guess the first; it was at the pharmacy): how do we get to Smith? Alas, my first encounter with...
The self-referential touches start with jokes on his own name. As Critic Veronica Geng has noted, Spielberg translates from the German as "play mountain." The hero of Close Encounters finds his way to the starship by molding a mountain out of a dirt hill. At the beginning of both...
The White House had made no secret about its desire for Gorbachev to come to the U.S. The Soviets said nyet: a meeting would have to be on neutral territory. Some Americans favored a get-acquainted session. Nancy Reagan in particular felt that if her husband could, as she once...
Amid this spate of unexpected appointments, another decision was announced in relatively muted fashion by both Moscow and Washington. President Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev will hold the first U.S.-Soviet summit meeting in six years, in Geneva on Nov. 19 and 20. Both sides were careful to limit the potential...
The fledgling businessmen encounter varying degrees of resistance. In Texas, fighting broke out between Vietnamese shrimpers, who began arriving in force in the late 1970s, and the American fishermen who were already there. More often, the newcomers move into occupations that other groups are leaving. The immigrants are thus frequently...