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...State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom cupboard, site of the only phone in our rented house, I drove through a wild storm to board a flight back to Moscow. On a nearly empty Lufthansa flight out of Frankfurt I met up with a number of colleagues, somewhat apprehensive and very crestfallen, who had shared the Gorbachev-vacation theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism's Last Hurrah: Our Man in Moscow Remembers | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...idea what to expect when we landed. I assumed we would be sent back to Frankfurt, and was planning to head for Lithuania, where friends could help me cross the border. Instead, there was an unusual absence of lines at the airport - the only people trying to get into Moscow during the coup were journalists. I flagged down a car to get into the city, and we quickly passed the first sign of the military takeover: an armored personnel carrier by the roadside. It had broken down. "Morons," the driver snarled as we drove past the soldiers. I began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism's Last Hurrah: Our Man in Moscow Remembers | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...husband Philip, Graham guided the Post's transformation into one of the most powerful newspapers in the U.S., uncovering the Watergate scandal and publishing the Pentagon Papers. DIED. BEATE UHSE, 81, former German World War II test pilot, who became a household name for her sex novelty shops; in Frankfurt. An air force captain who delivered planes to the front, Uhse later liberated Germany's attitude towards sex with her "orderly" approach to selling everything from pornographic videos to flavored condoms and leather masks. SENTENCED. JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, British novelist and politician, to four years in prison for perjury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...schools underscore a broader educational trend. Universities are now the fifth largest U.S. exporter of services abroad--topping entertainment and health care--and raked in $10 billion last year. In the past two years, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, N.C., has opened an outpost in Frankfurt, Germany, while Harvard has established research facilities in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. And in April, Cornell announced that it would open a branch of its medical school in Qatar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing Away For an MBA | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Habermas studied philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn and then worked briefly as an assistant to philosopher Theodor Adorno at the Institute for Social Research, before a long career in philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Harvard Honors Eleven With Honorary Degrees | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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