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...Communications between 17 million I [East] Germans, about as many people as are living in New York State, and the 61 million of us living in West Germany are hampered. Since the wall was erected across Berlin 21 years ago, we have been able to regain some communication. We are still deeply dissatisfied with it. But it is more than nothing. We don't want to sacrifice it. It is much more important for the 17 million Germans living on the other side than...
...laxwomen won't have too much time to regain their composure, however, because this weekend they travel back into Eli country, to defend their Eastern AIAW championship. Harvard faces none other than host Yale in the first round of the tournament...
...October war had two consequences for Sadat. First, his limited success allowed him to recoup some of Egypt's national honor which had been squandered by Nasser's unsuccessful forays. Second, because Sadat could not conquer the Sinai through war, he recognized that it made sense to try to regain it through peace. His historic trip to Jerusalem in November 1977 constituted a daring and bold move for peace, for he risked angering the other Arab states in the region. But far from being solely altruistic. Sadat's initiative was carefully calculated. Because he sought peace-for reasons of both...
...left behind a series of frayed but unsevered connections: with Heidegger and with Germany. In Paris, and later in New York, she and her husband, Heinrich Blücher, lived as stateless persons, their brilliance appreciated only by a growing group of refugees. Blücher was never to regain his European status as orator and political activist. But he was merely a talent; his wife was a genius. Was America preoccupied by war? Never mind, she would observe and wait. Her time would come. Was English new and difficult? Very well, she would immerse herself in it. Her books...
...typical Adams story rattles such a woman out of her hard-earned equilibrium and then studies her attempt to regain balance. In Legends, a sculptor submits to yet another interview about her love affair with a famous composer, long dead; this time the questions prod her into a painful re-examination of the past and, ultimately, to the realization that she has produced work of value on her own. In The Girl Across the Room, a woman in her late 60s sits in a hotel dining room in northern California and watches a young girl being fawned over...