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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Moscow think tank offers a lesson in the application of pressure. "To maintain one's influence in a situation," he says, "it is often necessary -- in fact it is usually necessary -- to both give and withhold. Especially in Latin America, where every leader thinks he is some sort of mystic God, diplomacy requires dealing as one deals with children. If you say no all the time, you are ignored, even if, as a parent, you hold all the theoretical power. The helicopters signaled that we were still on the Sandinistas' side. They already believed we weren't. If that impression...
...also on keeping the lines drawn and the competitive edge keen. "Janet and Paula are more similar to each other than I am," she says. "They both are much more accomplished dancers than I am. They are more commercially successful than I am. I'm innovative, sort of the renegade of the bunch. I have shorter hair. I have a tattoo...
...leaded-glass lamps displayed in "Masterworks" radiate a ragtime glow -- magnolias, maple leaves, dragonflies and cobwebs are set atop finely wrought bronze bases. Viewed together, however, they overwhelm a modern eye, a sort of kaleidoscopic overdose. Tiffany would perhaps have been embarrassed by such a showing of his lamps. He considered them rankly commercial and beneath his talents. They were, however, a convenient way to use up the several tons of glass chips and shards remaining from his monumental windows. At his 68th birthday party, where more than 160 examples of his art were displayed, Tiffany exhibited only one lamp...
...corps's problem is to find a mission that would justify its continued existence. In what defense specialist Edward Luttwak calls a "geopolitical meltdown," the collapse of the Warsaw Pact has forced the Pentagon to reassess what sorts of war the U.S. may have to fight in the future. Rather than a huge tank-and-artillery Armageddon on the central front of Europe, the most likely outbreaks will be "low-intensity conflicts" such as the American invasions of Grenada and Panama. Although these are precisely the sort of assignment for which the Marines were created, they played no central role...
Indirectly, of course, Tehran gets a boost. Settlements of this sort will help President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ease his country back into the trade and economic relationships it so badly needs with the rest of the world. And if he cares to regard it as evidence that a conciliatory approach to the U.S. pays off, all the better...