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...ordered his shattered forces to counterattack. "The Russians have overextended themselves so much that the decisive battle can be won at Berlin," he declared. Then came fits of despair, when he vowed to die in his besieged capital. "Should this fateful battle of the German people under my leadership fail," he said, "then the German people do not deserve to exist...
...Soviet propagandist's delight. The Soviets play the Nazi-West Germany theme night and day. It is false. West Germany's honorable history is its refutation. Why then a visit that cannot fail symbolically to affirm...
...Chinese film, as in Hollywood, ambition and nuance seldom keep company. The mainland's best-known directors are masters of the kind of movies that critics call "epic" when they succeed and "overwrought" when they fail, films that swamp our eyes and yank at our hearts. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film...
...encouraged that your magazine took the crucial step of shifting the focus away from pills and to other ways of treating the sources of pain. And I can't thank you enough for including fibromyalgia in your article. Many of us who suffer from it still face doctors who fail to recognize that excruciating disease - plunging us into a nightmare that compounds the anxiety, depression and hopelessness, and therefore the pain. Moira McLaughlin Los Angeles Recurrent pain is grossly undertreated in our society. For tens of millions of Americans, chronic pain is a catastrophic medical condition that can disrupt every...
...peace process. Adams denies being an I.R.A. leader, but he wields undeniable influence in the republican movement. Even if he is vote grabbing, his request should get results. "Adams can't unsay this," a senior British official told TIME, "which suggests he's expecting this to succeed rather than fail...