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...instinctively monogamous, my interest in Harvard women varied inversely with the state of my relationship with Tina. In November it looked like a permanent tailspin, and I began to take the fall for a femme on the fifth floor of my entry, coincidentally also named Christina. Nicknamed the "Ice Queen" by one of my friends, she ignored every advance I threw her way for some weeks. Finally she took pity on me and patiently explained that her heart belonged to another back in the Old Country, and even though I was charming and sweet etc., there was a commitment between...
...primary and argued that female leadership "is a sure sign of God's curse," he finished a weak fourth, with only 2.1% of the vote. For a time Republican State Senator John DeCamp threatened a write-in candidacy to provide a male alternative to what he calls a "prom-queen contest," but he soon dropped the idea. In an August survey of 449 registered Nebraska voters, a few feared that Boosalis, 67, is too old for the job, and some believed that Orr, 47, is inexperienced. But only two of those surveyed thought the Gov ernor's race had anything...
...John Paul spoke briefly, decrying recent terrorist attacks in Karachi and Istanbul as "horrendous and almost unbelievable acts." Then, waving away helping hands with open irritation, he climbed unassisted down and up a narrow, rocky path to pray at a 13-meter-tall stone statue of Mary the Queen of Peace. Told that local villagers hike up from the valley floor every year to hear Mass there, John Paul replied, "Then they must be better mountain climbers than the Pope...
...also worth remembering, now that everyone takes for granted the rightness of open landscape as a site for sculpture, that he did more than any other artist of his time to rekindle that idea and recover some of its archaic roots. Moore's King and Queen, 1952-53, gazing out over the stony ocean of Scottish moors, are the descendants not of 18th century garden sculpture but of something older, more vital and mysterious: the chthonic spirit of place embodied in the dolmens of Carnac or Stonehenge...
...dispute focuses on a piece of Alaska that extends 500 miles south along the British Columbia coast. Canadians deny U.S. claims that the strip's boundaries encompass some 300 sq. mi. of rich fishing grounds near British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands. In August, Joe Clark, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, rejected a request from Secretary of State George Shultz to negotiate the issue...