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...Staten has been working to coax Ralph and a handful of others out of desperate isolation. Some of the men have formed a self-help group. At meetings of the new Hawaii Veterans Association, in the town of Captain Cook, they begin to make peace with the demons that haunt them, by discovering that others are haunted as well...
Even in the best of times, Moscow was a militarized city, where officers in uniform rode the metro and army vehicles mingled with city traffic. But as tensions rise and visions of chaos begin to haunt the nation, jittery Muscovites have been paying more attention to all the soldiers in their midst...
DURING the semester, Harvard premeds can be difficult to spot. They camp out in their labs, hunched over rows of test tubes. They haunt the Office of Career Services, poring over medical school catalogs and admissions statistics...
...with a request to rule by decree if necessary, Havel warned that if democracy failed, "we would be cursed by future generations." Negotiators took the hint and produced a compromise: joint stock ownership of utilities and a rotating chairmanship of the central bank. But a perverse question continues to haunt the new democracies eager to join modern Europe's mainstream: What if the right to choose translates into the decision to say "No, thanks" to democracy...
...questions haunt the case of John Demjanjuk. Is he really "Ivan the Terrible," operator of the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in Poland during 1942-43? And if so, how is it that a retired Cleveland autoworker with a spotless record as a churchgoing citizen and loving family man was also capable of murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews, stabbing and mutilating his victims even as he marched them to their deaths...