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In Willie and Joe, cartoonist BILL MAULDIN, who died last week at 81, created an unlikely and imperishable pair of American icons. These unshaven, hollow-eyed, grimy World War II infantry dogfaces appeared in the pages of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the...
DIED. BILL MAULDIN, 81, American army sergeant turned Pulitzer prizewinning cartoonist; in Newport Beach, California. Mauldin's unconquerable GIs Willie and Joe inspired and immortalized the courage of American soldiers in World War II. After the war, Mauldin became a syndicated cartoonist and won his second Pulitzer for depicting Soviet...
He said that it was too early to evaluate fully the impact of perestroika. But he said reforms under his successor, Boris Yeltsin, that moved the country further toward a market economy came with “too high a price”—rampant poverty.
It's one thing to be attacked by Jack Welch and quite another to be savaged by the European Court of First Instance. That's what Mario Monti, the E.U.'s competition Commissioner, is discovering. Monti famously withstood pressure from Welch, the former General Electric chairman, when the E.U. last...
At my prodding we also paid a visit to the famous Aurora spa, hoping to experience one of Issyk-Kul's other attractions: the mud bath. But it was not to be. On offer instead were such dubious delights as "lavage of the stomach" and "urological prostate massage." This might...