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...Brussels on Sunday, ambassadors planned to hold a friendly football match, each wearing T shirts with the same magic number: 25. Appreciation of the day's significance was most intense further east, particularly in the seven new members that languished for more than 40 years behind the Iron Curtain. It was there, east of the Oder River, where Europe's division was most acutely felt in the systematic repression of human rights and national destiny. In bringing the sundered halves of the Continent together, E.U. bureaucrats have grumbled about the intransigence of the new members in the past decade...
...page, brisk and unflappable. It is difficult to know how accurate this portrait is, and how much of it consists of sweet nothings whispered into the author's ear by loyal retainers. I suspect the Woody Allen and Joe Public stories are true. They are moments when the curtain of platitudes is parted and the quality of Bush's sensibility is revealed. I also suspect the larger picture--the world as seen from the West Wing bunker--is distressingly accurate as well. Bush endures countless military briefings about the war to come. He pays assiduous attention to speech texts...
...chorale’s last performance of the season something special. Tickets $36, $26, $16 with discounts, $3 off for Mass. Teachers Association, WGBH, WCRB, Chorale members and Groups of 10 or more, $5 off for Outings & Innings Harvard Faculty & Staff, student rush $5 starting 1/2 hour prior to curtain time. 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...rabbis and priests, and common initiatives taken against racism and anti-Semitism. For that, we are indebted to both of these great spiritual leaders. We can also thank John Paul for taking steps that led toward the historic collapse of communism in Poland and everywhere else behind the Iron Curtain. His belief in God did not diminish his sense of duty toward the worldly well-being of God's creatures. In other words, without the Pope, without his political interventions, the 20th century could have ended differently. That is a measure of his influence on today's world...
...page, brisk and unflappable. It is difficult to know how accurate this portrait is, and how much of it consists of sweet nothings whispered into the author's ear by loyal retainers. I suspect the Woody Allen and Joe Public stories are true. They are moments when the curtain of platitudes is parted and the quality of Bush's sensibility is revealed. I also suspect the larger picture-the world as seen from the West Wing bunker-is distressingly accurate as well. Bush endures countless military briefings about the war to come. He pays assiduous attention to speech texts...