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Certainly, 1968 was an important date, but 1989 has a greater significance. As you said, there was not much violence and few deaths. This is a miracle. The whole situation could have got out of control and ended up in carnage or civil war. Many people from eastern Germany today believe that the GDR was not so bad. It is necessary to remind them of the truth. Georg Sylvester, AUGSBURG, GERMANY
...home on a lagoon (with a view of the ocean) in California. "I burst out laughing. I could not get over it," she said of the fine-artwork-filled home that the Marin County couple swapped with her so they could visit their daughter and her new baby. "They got this little, small apartment, and I got this million-dollar home. I laughed at the trade, but they were happy to be near their daughter in Manhattan, so it worked out fine." (See pictures of luxury private islands...
...course. Every writer in Hollywood started by writing a screenplay and getting recognition. If the movie didn't get made, it at least got noticed by somebody--a producer or an agent. If someone is prolific and keeps working at it, they're going to do it. You've just got to keep writing. I'm sure we could show you instances of very famous screenwriters whose first screenplay wasn't very good. They just kept...
...skies above Paris, rapidly declined into mere showmanship. (The flamboyant Italian aerialist Vincent Lunardi once proposed the following toast: "I give you me, Lunardi - whom all the ladies love!") From there it descended into tragedy and defeat. At one of Lunardi's public launches, a young man got tangled up in some of the balloon's ropes, was dragged aloft, then fell to his death. Lunardi died in poverty, and the dauntless Pilâtre was killed while attempting to cross the English Channel...
...little side story for my Boston readership: When I got to Oakland Alameda Coliseum—which I discovered is actually McAfee Coliseum (oops)—I got a little lost navigating the press area and stumbled across the weight room where I found Kevin Millar (now with the Jays) introducing a family to Nomar Garciaparra (now with...