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...relentless. Hardly have the campers arrived than their dorm is smothered in rainbowed posters bubbling over with red hearts, pictures of Garfield and slogans championing both competition and community. MAARCHE MAJORETTES WANT YOU TO HAVE AN AWESOME TIME! DEBS ARE MOOR FUN. LUV THE DESERT. And even before the maiden cheer session, six-, seven-, ten-packs of enthusiasts have clustered together in bunches, and begun punching the air, boogying, dervishing and screeching out the cries of their particular tribe...
...similar lack of assertiveness was evident when Shevardnadze gave his maiden speech to the conferees. He read his 25-minute address woodenly and slowly, raising his eyes to his audience only four times. His tone was quiet and moderate, but in terms of content the speech could easily have been written by his unbending predecessor, Gromyko, now Soviet President. Pleading for a return to détente, Shevardnadze launched into a predictable litany of accusations against the U.S. for deploying intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, for "violating" Strategic Arms Limitation treaties and for pushing ahead with the Strategic Defense...
...George Bush likes to chuckle at this panicky stage in any drama. Throughout his career, critics have moaned fiery doom scenarios and Bush has regularly proven them wrong. From his maiden gubernatorial run as a political neophyte, to his first Presidential term's four tax cuts, he has beaten the odds by wearing down the opposition or grabbing a last minute compromise and declaring victory. ?Despite his history,? says a top White House aide, ?people say: ?yes, but this time it's different...
...Cold, Cold Art There have been many attempts to promote peace in Northern Ireland, but artist Rita Duffy'seffort is unique. Duffy plans to tow an iceberg from Norway to Belfast, the city where the ill-fated Titanic was built and from which it set off on its fatal maiden voyage in 1912. Duffy said she hoped the iceberg would be "a symbol of hope" for the province's divided community. Alas, like so many peace agreements before it, the work is bound to melt down...
Over the past decade, Assistant Professor of History Caroline M. Elkins has carefully crafted her maiden work, a 500-page indictment of British authorities’ repression of the Mau Mau uprising in post-World War II Kenya. Imperial Reckoning is a composite of oral interviews and painstaking documentary research that already seems destined to become the authoritative work on an important but under-discussed episode in African history...