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...EAST-WEST After World War II, a Russian-born doctor and his French wife accept an invitation to help rebuild the U.S.S.R.--and enter into decades of police-state agony. Director Regis Wargnier's film is a great, gray epic of despair and survival...
Christmas is about generosity, of course, and friendship and family and jolly old Saint Nick. But in its truest, most Christian sense, the holiday is about hope, and hope not in the midst of success and triumph, but hope in the midst of darkness and despair. It offers what has been termed a "sign of contradiction" to the world--a messiah who takes on the form of a weak, helpless infant and who brings light to the dark of the year...
...military man who can maintain the tough posture Israeli voters desire even as he seeks a peace agreement. Voters have shown growing concern over the fact that their vaunted security forces appear to have been unable to respond decisively to the intifada, and their rising fear and despair has counted against Barak'S chances of reelection until now. But Barak showed Saturday that he clearly has a reelection plan, and canny observers of the region don't doubt that it might involve a few nasty surprises for his external enemies, too. After all, soldiering is what the prime minister does...
...contrary, has begun the research paper for her Core course the night before it is due. Racing through HOLLIS, she learns that all the books are checked out until 2001. Phone calls to friends in the class go unanswered; e-mails to her TF for an extension unheeded. In despair, she goes to her House library to contemplate life after failing a Core...
...Jose, Calif., on a school night. Walk past the guard at the reception desk, down past the rows of slightly musty bunk beds, past the red-eyed guys slumped in front of a tiny TV screen filled with colored snow. Just as your heart starts to sag with despair for the human condition, though, stop and take a peek through the locked door on the right. The contrast couldn't be starker. You see a brilliant white computer lab with state-of-the-art PCs and a massive Ethernet hookup; rows of servers with blinking green lights and spaghetti wiring...