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...stars and add a big new one. Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander are back as Damiel and Cassiel, the angels come to Earth. Peter Falk returns as an ex-angel, and Solveig Dommartin as the trapeze artist who'll meet any heavenly body halfway. But here's a casting coup: Mikhail Gorbachev as himself. He sits at a desk, pondering the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe. "I'm sure that a secure world can't be built on blood, only on harmony," opines the former Soviet leader, now available for smaller roles. "If we can only...
...took Russia 10 days to shake the world. Last week it took just one. Although the latest revolution unfolded peacefully at the ballot box, the aftershocks were no less unsettling than those triggered by the Bolshevik coup. Ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a golden-tongued demagogue who has been compared with Adolf Hitler, looked to have swept enough votes to establish a powerful bloc for his neofascist party in the State Duma, the lower house of the new Russian parliament...
Aristide, Haiti's popularly-elected president, was deposed in a September 1991 coup d'etat after serving nine months in office. Chomsky said Clinton has perpetuated the Bushadministration's policy of only supportingAristide's reinstatement as a figurehead in agovernment made up of the current military leadersand other wealthy elite...
...small, no-frills gathering at the company's plant in Dearborn, Michigan, almost as an afterthought to the introduction of Ford's new Mustang. At General Motors 11 months earlier, affable, unassuming Jack Smith landed just as unceremoniously in that company's top job. Following the virulent boardroom coup that ousted his predecessor, chairman Robert Stempel, and most of his top executives, Smith ascended with no ritual at all, and settled down to business at the world's largest industrial corporation so quietly that he has seldom been seen or heard from in public since. At Chrysler, Bob Eaton owed...
...long list of aspirants, including a movie star, a ballerina, a poet, an Orthodox priest, a dress designer, a 55-year-old grandmother and a former Olympic weight-lifting champ. Not to mention a participant in the aborted coup of 1991 who spent nine months in prison for treason. Russians have no experience in democracy, so it is hardly surprising to see the ballot studded with celebrities who believe their charisma is more important than their political know...