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...will encourage informal mixing. The presidential retreat offers tennis courts, a one-hole golf course, a bowling alley and a heated swimming pool. It is difficult to imagine Begin or Sadat working off tensions on the trampoline, but they may take to the nature trail that winds through the thick woods. For evening entertainment, Carter enjoys showing movies to his guests in Hickory Lodge, and both the Egyptians and the Israelis have expressed interest in westerns. (White House aides were joking last week that both would like...
...withstood a 105-day siege by the Catholic armies of James II, the city of Londonderry has been the symbol of Protestant triumph and Catholic humiliation. For nearly three centuries after the siege, Catholic residents of the city were forbidden by custom to live within Derry's six-foot-thick, lichen-green stone walls; the "Catholic area" was a nearby swamp appropriately called Bogside. Nor were Catholics?even when they became a majority in Derry?ever allowed to play any major role in the city's administration. When, in 1968, Catholic civil rightists did the unthinkable by marching through this...
...tradition, 342 years of it, give or take a few. Harvard's traditions grow like the ivy on its buildings -- somethimes so thick that they obscure what's underneath. When you get here you will no doubt be curious to wade about in some of this tradition that you are paying for, perhaps even make a little of your own, but where to go to find out what it's all shout...
...GAGS? Will you shriek hysterically when the Oriental manservant Kato, trying to spy for his boss, Clouseau, disguises himself with a pair of glasses so thick that he keeps walking into things? I hate to admit it, but I did. Will you giggle helplessly when an assassin hands Sellers a round, black bomb with a sizzling fuse and tells him it's a special delivery package? Again, I plead guilty. How does Edwards get away with this old schtik? By keeping, I believe, his technique straightforward and limp, with no shock-cutting or screwy camera angles to jar us. Most...
...scene with a meaningless sentence, "He who hesitates laughs last," and while they were at it work in a reference to Christina Onassis. There was a second's hesitation while two very fast computers scanned the possibilities, and Monty started muttering, "He who hesitates laughs last," in a thick Russian accent. "No, no," Suzanne, as Christina Onassis, gently explained, he had it wrong-but never mind: "I can buy you the best course Berlitz has to offer." "Have we been to Berlitz?" Monty, playing Christina's latest husband, Sergei Kauzov, asks plaintively. "No, that's Berlin...