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...soul to the devil for one glorious season as a long-ball hitter. But Abbott was more than a ceremonial presence at last week's gala. He was in the audience for previews night after night -- taking notes. Since well before the revival began tryouts in San Diego last autumn, Abbott has debated jokes and period references, wrestled with changing mores between the sexes and tinkered with the staging, including an explosion for the first-act finale, when a frustrated devil punishes his temptress- assistant. Says Jack O'Brien, who directed the revival and revamped the book with Abbott...
This enduring need to remember people at the pinnacle of their accomplishments drove the public interest in Dan Jansen's and Diann Roff-Steinrotter's quest for gold. These athletes, in the autumn of their youth, were afforded one last chance in the Winter Olympics...
...dangers are especially frightening for thousands of alien residents. Last autumn, militant Islamists threatened death to all foreigners who did not quit the country. "The terrorists play on people's nerves until they crack up and leave," says a member of the dwindling French community. Raymond Louzoum, who was married to a Muslim and had applied for Algerian nationality, did not want to go and so became the 27th victim. "He fitted my first pair of glasses when I was four years old," said a young woman who works in an office opposite the optician's shop, choking back tears...
They already make up disproportionately large shares of university classes, a development that has stuck a bamboo pole into the affirmative-action machinery. Fully 41% of the entering freshman class at UCLA this autumn consists of students of Asian descent. At Berkeley they total 33.6% of enrollments, which has prompted calls for an admissions policy limiting their numbers. Not all rivals for the fruits of education are convinced that such an invidious system would be fair play. Some black intellectuals who have a stronger faith in self-reliance have argued that competing minorities would be better off raising their...
...autumn of 1998. Hungary's democratic government, outraged at the treatment of 1.8 million ethnic Hungarians in neighboring Romania, threatens to take back the region of Transylvania by force. Bulgaria backs Romania. Farther north, Ukraine's government is shaken by an ultimatum from Moscow: Hand over all nuclear weapons or face a pre-emptive strike. Hungary and Ukraine turn immediately to their NATO allies for support...