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Historical novelists commonly cast imaginary characters in real events. Author Günter Grass, 53, turns this standard formula on its head. The Meeting at Telgte teems with more than 20 German writers and literary figures, all of whom actually lived and worked during the 17th century. What these people did not do, how ever, is precisely the subject of Grass's novel. They did not meet together in 1647, near the end of the Thirty Years' War, nor did they sit down to discuss ways of uniting their ravaged father land through the power and the glory...
...Dodgers' Davey Lopes made 25 straight outs. Tommy Herr of the Cardinals tripled in four games in a row, and Chet Lemon of the White Sox managed to get hit by pitches three times in his first three games. The Orioles beat the Blue Jays for the 17th time in a row at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Seattle's Mike Parrott pitched his 18th straight loss-over two seasons, which puts him one game away from the American League record. Toronto won its fifth straight home opener, and the Texas Rangers staff threw four shutouts...
After the initial celebrations at the Post over its 17th Pulitzer came word of Cooke's false academic credentials and the first real cross-examining of her. It got rough. Bradlee: "You're like Richard Nixon-you're trying to cover up." Woodward: "It's all over. You've got to come clean." After hours of grilling in a conference room, she confided her guilt to one sympathetic editor, and the others were brought back in. As the ombudsman reported the scene, "Each editor hugged and kissed her. 'I'm sorry...
Gliding to a three-boat-length victory over Brown Saturday, the Harvard men's heavyweights retained the Stein Trophy for the 17th consecutive year to highlight Crimson crew action over the weekend...
...breakthrough came at a seven-hour meeting between Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski and Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa on the eve of the threatened strike. There was little optimism when those talks got under way at noon in Warsaw's 17th century Koniecpolski Palace. Three previous meetings had failed to defuse the crisis that erupted last month when police in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz brutally evicted 26 union members from a provincial assembly hall. Indeed, a massive warning strike to protest the beatings had halted the country for four hours on March 27. With Solidarity brandishing a list...