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...were close kin. He was a model of probity, a loyal friend to colleagues in distress, a father confessor to the Hollywood community. He chaired the National Society of This, the American Academy of That. He was laden with official honors: Lyndon Johnson gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Richard Nixon put him on his Enemies List. Peck received perhaps his sweetest laurel last week when the reclusive Lee, on hearing of his death, said, "Gregory Peck was a beautiful man. Atticus Finch gave him the opportunity to play himself...
...back for all employees." The grim mood extends far beyond the arcane details of the city budget. Last week Berliners solemnly marked the 50th anniversary of a nationwide workers' uprising in East Germany that was brutally suppressed by Soviet tanks on June 17, 1953. Those workers were demanding freedom, but today there are plenty of people around who say they preferred life under the communists before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. "If you ask me, they could put the Wall back up tomorrow," says Eveline Kulczak, 35. She has lost her prestigious job organizing fashion shows in eastern Germany...
...cold war, Ministry of Truth, Big Brother is watching, some are more equal than others? Fifty-three years after Orwell's death, his books have sold more than 40 million copies in 60 languages, and a million new readers discover him every year. His reputation as a champion of freedom, decency and clean prose has long outlived his era. The term Orwellian has become synonymous with the horrors of totalitarianism. Yet many of those students haven't a clue who Orwell really was. Oh, they may know that his name was actually Eric Blair, or that he was English...
...East has grown exponentially since it took possession of Iraq. At the same time, Sharon is keenly aware of the strongly pro-Likud sentiment of the hawkish faction of the Bush administration, which together with the overwhelming support on Capitol Hill for his own policies has given him the freedom to cherry-pick U.S. positions. Even his embrace of the roadmap has been partial and conditional, and he claims to have achieved understandings with Washington that issues such as the settlement freeze - which Sharon finds politically difficult as one of the founding fathers of the movement to settle Israeli civilians...
...While many Tibetans in Tibet gradually stop dreaming of freedom, the exile community is drifting toward irrelevance. The world would have forgotten Tibet if it weren't for the Dalai Lama. Despite several political misjudgments when he rejected Beijing's overtures, says French, the Dalai Lama has come to represent peaceful resistance and nonviolence in a world at war with terrorism, which is political dissidence in its worst form. But his popularity has only led to furious commercial exploitation?his images sell computers, movies and books?turning the Dalai Lama, at best, into the world's spiritual teddy bear. French...