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...summit is set against the backdrop of a continuing hemispheric drug scourge that shows little sign of abating. Colombia's effort to rein in the drug lords has scored some successes. Barco told TIME, "The leadership of the drug cartels has received a major blow. A number of members of the cartels have been extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Their leaders are hiding and on the run." In the past twelve months, troops have confiscated more than 1 million gal. of precursor chemicals used in cocaine refinement and 32 tons of cocaine and coca paste, compared with...
...when his father died of a heart attack. After graduating from Southwest Missouri State University (Kathleen Turner was a classmate), Goodman hopped a train for New York City, helped by $1,000 saved for him by his brother. A decade of stage work culminated in 1985 with a major Broadway role: as Huck Finn's "Pap" in the hit musical Big River. In 1987, while appearing in a Los Angeles production of Antony and Cleopatra, Goodman was asked to audition for a new sitcom opposite Roseanne Barr. The reading was an instant success. "I knew I had the part when...
...need to ask. As the Kremlin emissaries filed onto the stage, the answer was written all over their faces. The normally dour Lukyanov let a grin slip. The balding and bespectacled Yakovlev looked like a schoolboy who had just received straight A's. After praising the plenum as a "major step . . . away from an authoritarian-bureaucr atic model of socialism toward a democratic society that has opted for socialism," Yakovlev was asked how the meeting had affected Gorbachev's position. A smile, then the reply: "Very, very positively...
Hath Rank No Privileges? Part 2 Steiner's seal of approval also did not carry much weight with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week. At a meeting this week, the full Faculty voted to send back to his office major sections of a report on free speech guidelines prepared by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. Steiner's office has already reviewed the report twice, but there's always room for improvement...
...exhibit is in four rooms, one for each grouping, and the artists' works are well interspersed between the rooms. This lay out emphasizes the four major subjects common to the artists. At least in the first three rooms. The last collection, "Popular Culture," lacks the analytical qualities that make the rest of the exhibit evocative...