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Sometimes the most important conversations between a father and child are the ones that have to be slipped in edgewise. David Applebaum's daughter Nava, 20, was to be married last Wednesday in Jerusalem. Applebaum, who was ordained as a rabbi before he opted for a medical career, had already gone to some lengths to ensure that Nava was properly launched in her new status, compiling a booklet for her of rabbinical sayings, family aphorisms and his own thoughts about relationships and marriage. But he was determined to fit in one more chat with his oldest girl before she stepped...
Achieving that ambition was further complicated by the fact that Applebaum, as a leading specialist in emergency response to terrorist attacks, was a man in great demand. Since immigrating to Israel from Cleveland, Ohio, two decades ago, he had established Jerusalem's first mobile intensive-care units and offered up a steady stream of efficiencies and innovations against the ever more frequent waves of carnage produced by suicide bombers. As the director of emergency medicine at Jerusalem's Shaare-Zedek hospital, Applebaum, 50, was known for his obsession with reducing patient waiting time, treating Palestinian and Israeli victims alike, having...
Nava urged him to go. "It's important that you represent Israel, but be sure to get back on time," she said. So Applebaum, who knew about getting to places fast, did some fancy scheduling: he would fly to New York City, give his talk--not a eulogy, but a chillingly practical step-by-step primer on emergency care after major bombings--jump on a plane back the same day with a few New York--based wedding guests and return in time to help with the final preparations...
...around the corner from the studios of Russia's main TV networks. No plaques record its history, or the work of other zeks (prisoners) here. Few Muscovites know of their contribution, and even fewer seem to care. Perhaps the sheer scale of the horror makes ordinary Russians uncomfortable. Anne Applebaum, in her meticulously documented and dispassionately written Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (Penguin/Allen Lane; 610 pages), estimates that 18 million people passed through the camps between 1929 and 1953. Nobody knows how many died, though she offers, "reluctantly" the almost certainly low official figure of 2.7 million camp...
...count at the height of most famous prison uprising in 1954. The members of a religious sect who, during the same uprising, sat on mattresses in the parade ground, waiting to be taken to heaven. Red Army tanks arrived first and crushed the uprising. Even more striking, though, is Applebaum's description of the bureaucracy of repression. The Soviet leadership pretended that the camps were economically rational and productive. They were not. Some built useless projects, all needed continual subsidies: the Soviet system could not grasp the simple truth that people work badly if they are terrorized and half starved...