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...occupation of the three states, he answered heatedly: "If the Baltic states joined the U.S.S.R. in 1939, we could not have occupied them in 1941, as they were already part of the Soviet Union." Stalin nostalgia, some analysts say, shows that the country's present leaders are fast running out of ideas. "The Russian political élite is gradually turning back to the past for inspiration," says Dmitry Furman of the Moscow-based Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. "And that means Stalin. If people have no future, they look to the past...
News travels fast on the London Underground during the morning rush hour. On a typical day, only commuters taking to the capital's subway trains before 9 a.m. can get hold of a copy of Metro, the free daily newspaper piled high in racks near the station entrance. Metro is a popular title, and copies are snapped up quickly. So getting a newspaper after 9 a.m. usually means paying for it - which a declining number of Britons seem prepared to do. Scanning his Metro while awaiting a train to work, Jonathan Cole, a 26-year-old stockbroker, sniffs at actually...
...grown up around here, she knew everyone, her family was close by, there was a war on, terrible things happened all the time and they were in the thick of it, and they managed to feed their kids and get them to school and the days went fast and yet she was lonely, unbearably lonely," Dean writes with an Ulster lilt. Meanwhile, the earnest Dunn must confront a grown son he didn't know he had, and is haunted by the sound of his prisoners talking late at night: "There was something ghastly about it; it was like listening...
...That has become the sensational British movie genre of our times. Think I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Or Sexy Beast. Or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The newest, Layer Cake, is among the best of this mutt breed--undistinguished bloodlines that have somehow produced a sleek, fast-moving movie creature...
Ambitious as all this is, Wright and his brain trust have taken pains to make the game as fast and easy to run as possible. It will also be interactive: all players' species will coexist in the same galaxy, via the Internet. The game itself will decide, say, which planet to place them on, going by what will make the most interesting combinations. "Until now, we've used the computer as an automated opponent," says Wright. "Now we're trying to give it the intelligence to run the show." The result, Wright believes, will hook in an even wider circle...