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...weeks ago, Richard Nixon had the opportunity to observe firsthand the country that now appears, even in the view of its embattled leader, to be on the brink of catastrophe...
Imagine discovering an unscreened espionage thriller from the late 1930s, a classic black-and-white movie that captures the murky allegiances and moral ambiguity of Europe on the brink of war. All the treasured cinematic touches that convey a mood of incipient danger are present -- a dead Soviet agent in a waterfront brothel in Ostend, lonely footsteps muffled by the snow on a dark Berlin street, a worn leather satchel with a false bottom left in a Prague railway station. No, they do not make movies like that anymore. But in Dark Star, Alan Furst has replicated this idealized form...
...added emphasis on education and social programs will prevent decent people from taking desperate measures. Increased funds will enable law enforcement agencies to weed out the bad cops without decimating their departments, as well as relieve the stress and work-load of officers on the brink of burnout...
Serbia, Yugoslavia's largest republic, has spent months poised on the brink of conflict with neighboring Croatia on behalf of the ethnic Serbs living there. But last week, the most harrowing for Yugoslavia since the end of World War II, Serbia was fighting battles entirely within its own borders. In a scenario that seems to have become a rite of passage in the new Europe, the people of the republic were pitted against an autocratic regime, Serbia's communist government. The showdown came in the capital, Belgrade, where anticommunist demonstrations paralyzed the city center for three tense days and nights...
...challenge than ever to Gorbachev. The central government has announced that it will not take no for an answer; if any republic returns a negative majority, it still would not be permitted to secede. Radical sociologist Boris Grushin writes that the referendum could begin "a balancing act on the brink of civil...