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...primary culprit" for the error was an anonymous government clerk, the Pentagon says. The bureaucrat mistakenly added all nonbattlefield U.S. military deaths--20,617--that occurred worldwide during the three-year conflict to the more than 33,000 U.S. battlefield dead in Korea. But only 3,275 of those nonbattlefield deaths--largely due to accidents or disease--occurred in Korea. That yields the new, revised U.S. death count for the war. In a rare example of interservice cooperation, a Pentagon memo notes, "All service historian offices have been advised...and are in agreement with the revision...
...ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into a crowd, all ambitions, all faiths abandoned...
...character, some scenes seem more closely tailored to the strengths of one individual or another. Gowl and Steinberger are hilarious as an elderly couple suddenly able to speak only Italian as the result of a failed experiment, and Modigliani's wonderful deadpan shines when he plays an inefficient government bureaucrat. Keefe's brown-nosing graduate student is so distressingly accurate that many audience members shuddered visibly, no doubt recalling past experiences in Literature and Arts courses. The production, designed by John Gordan '01, was simple yet effective. The blank half wall allowed the performers to transform the space quickly...
...also spoke about prescription drugs and HMOs, saying, "You want your doctor to be the one making decisions, not some bureaucrat in the government...
...leader must feel the pain of the country," says Sergei Stepashin, the Prime Minister dismissed in Putin's favor when he looked too soft to satisfy Yeltsin's demands. "Putin knew we had no alternative. Otherwise we'd have lost all authority in the country." Suddenly the gray-suited bureaucrat wore tough-guy garb, displaying the iron hand that Russians craved. When Putin coarsely proclaimed that his army would "wipe the terrorists out wherever we find them, even if they are sitting on the toilet," Russians loved it, and his popularity shot...