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...friends," as he told one interviewer. The great cellist laid flowers on the grave of Dmitri Shostakovich, who once taught him composition (Rostropovich quit the Moscow Conservatory when Shostakovich was dismissed for having offended Stalin's sensibilities). He laid more at the graves of Sergei Prokofiev, David Oistrakh and Emil Gilels. The next day, at another cemetery, he paid his respects to his mother Sofia and to Andrei Sakharov, whom he called "the greatest man of the 20th century...
...crusade has encountered resistance and stirred resentment. Emil Salim, Indonesia's Minister of Environment, asks how Americans can berate tropical nations for deforestation when U.S. trade barriers discourage development of small industries that might provide an alternative source of exports...
Having won everything, Hitler still could not be satisfied. The following spring, deciding that he now wanted more than just the Sudetenland, he held a conference with Czech President Emil Hacha in Berlin (Bene had resigned and gone into exile after Munich). Hacha was 66 and suffering from heart trouble, so it did not help to have the meeting begin at 1:15 a.m. on March 15, 1939. Hitler told his guest that the Czechs were still guilty of "Bene tendencies," and therefore the Wehrmacht would invade Czechoslovakia at 6 that morning. The only question was whether the Czechs would...
...Mayor Emil Kirokofyan told the first group of foreign correspondents to visit the area after Wednesday's quake that recently constructed apartment buildings had not been built to withstand such a severe temblor--even though Leninakan is in an area of frequent earthquakes...
Probably it is too simple of human beings to want to look in on their own progress quadrennially, hoping to gauge how far they have gone by how fast they can go, as if the breed could hope to improve on Emil Zatopek. He was the beau ideal in 1952, a balding Czech about the size of a parking meter, who ran all day and all night with his shirt peeled up and his tongue rolled down. When Zatopek raced, hearts raced. Whoever his modern descendant might be -- the Moroccan Said Aouita, likely as not -- he will almost certainly...