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...trial judge acknowledged were "at the end of a long chain of responsibility," while there is scant sign their superiors will be called to account? Only two senior East German officials have gone on trial, both for fraud, and none has gone to jail. The country's former leader, Erich Honecker, fled to Moscow to evade trial, and is living there under diplomatic protection at the Chilean embassy -- while suing the new government to restore his retirement pay. A letter from a West German retiree to one of Heinrich's co-defendants, border guard Andreas Kuhnpast, cynically recalled the Nazi...
Frank Norris' novel McTEAGUE is a panorama of the U.S. at the turn of the century: cowboys, gold mines, the immigrant experience, the advent of electricity and the movies. At the core is a gruesome cautionary tale, aptly retitled Greed by Erich Von Stroheim when he made a nine-hour film of it in 1923. The book is both bad and great, its prose lopsided and its effects crude, its power and pathos undiminished. In adapting it anew, California's Berkeley Repertory Theater has retained all the virtues and many of the faults. The first half of Neal Bell...
...indicted womanizing gambler. Some choice . . . Clark Clifford, former Defense Secretary and bank executive, claimed ignorance about the B.C.C.I. scandal, but investigators were more than a little skeptical . . . Germany found that reunions can be angst ridden and downright divisive -- not to mention expensive . . . But that didn't mean anyone wanted Erich Honecker back, except for some character in the Chechen-Ingush region of Russia who invited the former East German boss to settle down there...
Where is a failed communist to go these days? Ousted East German leader Erich Honecker thought he had found a safe haven in the Soviet Union. But last week Russian President Boris Yeltsin said Honecker, 79, had to leave...
...Maybe there was a moral to Mr. Cowan's story--"Read Erich Fromm," or "Play checkers," or "Eat Armenian food," perhaps--but for the life of me, I couldn't find...