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...Schecters argue that simply presenting Sudoplatov's account -- not corroborating it -- was all they set out to do. "One of the reasons we left it in the first person and let him say some outrageous things was that this is his story," says Leona Schecter. After his boss Beria was purged and shot in 1953, Sudoplatov was accused of mass murders by the victorious Nikita Khrushchev and jailed for 15 years. He was eventually rehabilitated after addressing a 1982 plea to the Communist Party Central Committee mentioning his exploits in obtaining atomic information from Oppenheimer, Fermi and Bohr, among others...
...supposedly told Bohr that a nuclear reactor built in the U.S.S.R. would not work, and Bohr gave precise advice on what went wrong and how to fix it. The conversation did occur, but Bohr's son Aage, who was present, insists his father gave away no technical secrets. His account was backed up by Terletsky -- at least according to Roald Sagdeev, a former Soviet physicist now teaching at the University of Maryland, and other scholars who have read a 30-page report Terletsky wrote before he died. Terletsky, they say, termed the meeting a failure...
...member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which established the federal guidelines that require judges in all parts of the country to hand down roughly equivalent sentences for comparable crimes. Many judges are furious over the guidelines, which they complain force them to issue sentences that do not take into account the differing circumstances of individual defendants. Because they mandate lengthy sentences for first-time drug offenders, the guidelines are also blamed for contributing to the huge growth of the American prison population...
This flurry of achievement and attention is peaking with the publication last week of Price's most distinctive and haunting work, an account of his affliction and renewal titled A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing. Reviewers are being even more generous than usual, and TV talk masters Larry King, Charlie Rose and Oprah Winfrey are beckoning. Price wrote the book, he says, because when he was hospitalized and searching for hope, "I couldn't find anything like it. There were stories from wives, from children, but no stories from survivors. I wanted to tell how one person...
...beautifully braided harmonies with the occasional hint of dissonance, and their lyrics as usual have an eloquent, freewheeling wordiness. "I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself," Saliers declares on Least Complicated. On This Train Revised, Ray reshapes the classic song This Train into a forceful, impressionistic account of her visit to Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Piss and blood in a railroad car/ 100 people gypsies queers and David's star...