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...grateful University dedicated Memorial Church to the Harvard men who had given their lives in defense of their country during World War I. Even today the Memorial Room remains somber and contemplative, a place where one may pay reverence to the fallen heros of yesteryear...
...says, eight dead Russian soldiers lay before the nine-story, modernistic presidential palace itself, the epicenter of heavy fighting of the last three days. Now, burned and mangled Russian soldiers are as easy to spot as the dead among Grozny's inhabitants. "We clear away the corpses of our fallen comrades, but we can't clear away all the Russian corpses," said Chechen militia man Ilyas Salatayev. "But it's not our fault. We offered the Russians the chance to stop fighting, to let them take away their dead. They turned our offer down...
...involves stakes that are hardly Ruritanian. Obviously, there are the lives of many thousands of Chechens and Russian soldiers that could be snuffed out in the promised guerrilla struggle; at week's end, at least 16 and possibly 70 Russians -- counts differed wildly -- and hundreds of Chechens had already fallen in heavy fighting. Even more ominous, a drawn-out campaign could deal a devastating blow to Boris Yeltsin's presidency and Russia's endangered democracy...
Over the past decade, attendance at weekend Mass has fallen from 1,400 to 950. (Nationwide, only 41% of those who call themselves Catholics say they attend weekly Mass.) Kenneally must cope with the challenge of bringing people back into the fold at the same time as he and his fellow pastors face a growing priest shortage. Since Kenneally joined the parish 10 years ago, the number of full-time priests has dropped from four to just one: himself. St. Gertrude's five-year plan identifies one key challenge as "Saving Pastor From Burnout." Kenneally jokes, "Maybe...
Rudolph doesn't sharply differentiate these figures -- this is a movie of cameos -- and his re-creations of their famously brittle conversations suffer from a desperate case of fallen archness. What's worst is that the development of the film's central character is so uninvolving. Jennifer Jason Leigh's draggy performance as Parker is all studied accent (something vaguely mid- Atlantic but never before heard on Earth) and equally studied self-pity. Her sadness is attributed mainly to her failure to sexually consummate a relationship with her pal Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott). But this is a dithery and inconsequential...