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...seems incomprehensible. Less than three years after declaring independence from Moscow and igniting the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuanians voted their former communist leaders back into power. But the victory of the freshly named Democratic Labor Party does not presume a return to orthodox communism. It testifies instead to the disappointment of the great expectations in the three Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that the end of Soviet rule would mean the beginning of a wonderful life...
Earlier mass extinctions, 440 million to 210 million years back, are attributed to the breakup and drift of the single supercontinent known as Pangaea. All these cataclysms, says Wilson, drastically reduced the variety of species. But given world enough and time (at least 20 million years), biological diversity reasserted itself...
...gripping such American giants as IBM, Sears and < Citicorp. "Big organizations that last a long time are usually very conservative, like churches or armies," Womack says. Their size usually helps them forestall change for too long, so that when the forces finally become irresistible, the upheaval resembles the centrifugal breakup of the Soviet Union...
...Lisbon Traviata. By Terrence McNally. Operatic passions flare in this scathinglyfunny, deeply moving drama about the wrenching breakup of a gay relationship in New York's Greenwich Village. Played out against the soaring arias of the rare Maria Callas recording that gives the play its title, The Lisbon Traviata exposes the hearts and lives of its four searching characters with wit, brilliance and passion. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln Str., Newton Highlands. Wednesdays at 2 and 8 p.m. Thursdays at 8 p.m. Fridays at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 5 and 8:30 p.m. Sundays...
...story in the former Yugoslavia is also one of appeasement. The CIA warned Bush in 1990 that the nation would split apart. Yet Bush adhered to the status quo, never altering policy to fit the reality of the impending breakup--the same policy Bush pursued in the former Soviet Union until the failed coup forced a change. The U.S. was dangerously silent on Yugoslavia, allowing the Serbs and the communist government to go ahead with plans to keep the country together--even if it meant bloodshed...