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Though German authorities matched the remains to Mengele's medical and dental records in 1985, they were not 100% convinced until last week. British scientist Alec Jeffreys compared DNA from the exhumed bones with DNA from Mengele's living son Rolf Jenckel and pronounced them a match. The Israelis said they were satisfied. The genetic testing might have happened sooner, but Jenckel refused to cooperate until a German prosecutor threatened to dig up other deceased Mengeles for tissue samples...
Want to share in the sweaty embraces of Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange? They are entwined in A Streetcar Named Desire. Prefer the wry wit of Alan Alda or the in-your-face comic angst of Judd Hirsch? They play beleaguered husbands and failed fathers in splendid new tragicomedies from Neil Simon and Herb Gardner. If your taste runs to grandes dames, Rosemary Harris enacts the mean matriarch in Simon's previous play, Lost in Yonkers, while Lynn Redgrave evokes the aggrieved wife of a self-anointed genius in Ibsen's The Master Builder...
...Alec Wilkinson...
...mason who knows his stuff build an unmortared stone wall. Progress is slow but nearly always interesting; and the result, gray and rough-textured, following the dips and rises of the ground at hand, is satisfying but not showy. Observing such deliberate construction can be marvelously soothing, as when Alec Wilkinson, one of the magazine's younger fact writers, lays down a long list of house names toward the beginning of an article on the Tlingit-speaking Native Americans of Admiralty Island, off the mainland of southeast Alaska...
...slow pace, and no one could tell if a settlement was days or weeks away -- or possibly stalemated altogether. With so many circuits buzzing at once, there was ample room for misunderstanding, misinterpretation and plain old mischief. Was the tally of Western hostages 11 or 10 (is British journalist Alec Collett dead?) or nine (is Italian businessman Alberto Molinari dead as well?)? The estimated number of Arabs imprisoned in Europe fluctuated between 19 and 23. One day, the 9,000 or so Palestinians detained in Israel in connection with the nearly four-year-old intifadeh were not a factor...