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...August 1991, when the Soviet leadership's old guard made a last, despairing attempt to turn back time by seizing power in the name of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom cupboard, site of the only phone in our rented house, I drove through a wild storm to board a flight back to Moscow. On a nearly empty Lufthansa flight out of Frankfurt I met up with a number of colleagues, somewhat apprehensive and very crestfallen, who had shared the Gorbachev-vacation theory...
...Boris pulled me into the broom cupboard ... I felt like Cinderella in a beautiful dream. Boris was like a radiant German knight." ?ANGELA ERMAKOVA
...JAPAN Throw Mori from the Train Nobody likes him?but he's damned hard to get rid of. ITALY For a Few Billion Lira More In this spaghetti western, Berlusconi goes toe-to-toe with Rutelli. Where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? FIJI The Indians in the Cupboard That's where George Speight and friends want them?but the voters may disagree. SINGAPORE The Truman Show II: Another Day in Paradise The population gets suspicious when klieg lights fall from the sky killing the entire opposition?but no one does a thing about...
...After those two, though, the cupboard is mostly bare for the Elis. Yale's third-leading receiver is its fullback, junior James Keppel...
...variety. Corporate giants may get the press coverage, but it's small businesses that are leading the charge. In San Jose, Calif., the Graystone Elementary School has joined with Hicklebee's, a local children's bookstore, to hold readings by authors from Lynne Reid Banks (Indian in the Cupboard) to J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter). Graystone students display school projects in Hicklebee's windows, which draw their families to the bookstore. In Toms River, N.J., the staff of Silver Bay Elementary School gets behind the counter of the Yellow Brick Road ice-cream store one evening every spring and fall...