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FIFTY YEARS AGO, thousands of Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis in a ravine in the Ukraine at a place called Babi Yar. Until last week, there was no commemoration of their deaths and no marking of their mass grave. After decades of being ignored by the Soviet government, the newly independent Ukraine erected a memorial to those who were murdered at Babi...
...time has come to put the 1960's to rest. In his book Generation X, Douglas Coupland throws the first shovelful of dirt into the grave...
...Social Democrats, architects of Sweden's cradle-to-grave welfare system, it was the worst trouncing at the polls since 1928. All told, they won only 138 seats in the 349-member Riksdag, or Parliament, and just 38% of the popular vote. Behind their defeat was widespread discontent over the high cost of social benefits. Pensions and health and other programs are generous, but the top tax rate of about 70% is the highest in the Western world...
...Supreme Court early this year upheld the prohibition. The Senate bill and a House version will be reconciled in conference. The President, who has vetoed 21 bills and has never been overridden, was warned by congressional leaders of both parties that his winning streak will be at grave risk if he balks when the final bill reaches his desk...
...some land to build a home. After that, he intends to bicycle around the world, go to art school and volunteer his services to a government-sponsored Peace Corps for the elderly. In fact, Yamada's schedule is chock full until 2018, when he plans to buy a grave. All this meticulous planning is his way of relaxing: once a self- described workaholic, Yamada was forced by tuberculosis to slow down. "I used to give 100% of myself to my job," he says...