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...formidable reconstruction. It will take years of effort to repair the damage caused by division and, in the East, by four decades of communism. It will mean putting the East's downtrodden economy into working order and soothing worries on both sides of the old Iron Curtain: those of West Germans about paying for unity's immense costs and those of former Easterners about being second-class citizens in the united country...
...intimacy of scale with which director and co-author James Lapine has staged it. Lapine, who collaborated with composer Stephen Sondheim on the intricate musicals Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods, here limits himself to a few chairs, a doorway, two beds, a white curtain and a handful of props. The result is as magical as the computer-generated wizardry of a Les Miserables or Phantom of the Opera. The action shifts fluidly from reality to fantasy, from confessional thought to naturalistic dialogue, from poignance to farce...
...story of Sergei Kirov's murder helps draw back the curtain on how the meat grinder of the purges got started. First, though, I must describe the atmosphere of those times -- the early days, before a petty bourgeois mentality began to take over the party. Those were romantic times. We gave no thought to dachas and fancy clothes. All our time was spent on work...
Behind the steel curtain of Iraqi tanks and guns, occupied Kuwait is losing its national life. The uniformed invaders who declared the tiny country a province of Iraq are systematically destroying what remains of its identity, pillaging its economy and brutalizing its people. Everything of value, from furniture to computers to uprooted traffic lights, is being shipped to Iraq...
...landmark experiment, led by Dr. W. French Anderson, a pioneering advocate of gene therapy, and Drs. R. Michael Blaese and Kenneth Culver, raised the curtain on what some experts believe will be a new era in medicine, when many previously incurable genetic diseases will be contained or even conquered. The long-term impact on society could be enormous. Up to 5% of the infants born in the U.S. are afflicted with often debilitating and sometimes fatal genetic diseases. In most cases, no effective treatment exists for these disorders, which are caused by one or more faulty or missing genes among...