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...They're finished," said hospital administrator Gerard Van Selst as he boarded an armored Belgian convoy. "A huge number will be killed." One American sheltered a fugitive opposition politician and helped him to safety. But there were too many others he could not help. "I saw scenes that will haunt me for the rest of my life," he said. "Bodies. Piles of bodies, women and children. Just piles of them...
...strength of will of so many Germans to the extent that they tolerated Hitler and his agenda. Endless theorizing on the root causes of the Nazi psychological and emotional plague unearths a sad legacy of suffering that did not end with World War Two, but has continued to haunt the European psyche for decades. The broader public has left these questions behind, though, and in many ways the rediscovery of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" now serves only as retrospective on the recently deceased playwright, rather than a powerful psychological exploration which resonates with modern as well as war-scarred audiences...
Foreign buyers of all sorts and sources come shopping. Some work for multinational corporations with an eye to cheap supplies. Others are front men for organized crime or outlaw regimes, part of a swelling tide of agents who haunt export harbors on the Baltic Sea and travel the countryside. For help, many turn to Russians skilled in the use of blat (personal connections) and vzyatki (bribes) to oil the gears of the postempire black market...
...been candid. "I sincerely apologize to the people of Japan," he said. But to most Japanese, mired in their worst postwar recession and governed by a weak seven-party coalition, no apology was enough. Hosokawa's abrupt decline was a depressing signal that big-money politics still haunt the Japanese government...
Tired of the spotlight -- and of being compared to the fishy practitioners in The Firm -- Rose is showing the strain. Some members of the firm have knives out for the big names whose troubles have come back to haunt the firm. They leaked word that Rose was conducting an internal review of Hubbell to determine whether he had overbilled clients and misused his expense account. And politically conservative partners are also said to be itching to undercut Rose alumni attached to the Democratic White House. The Washington Times reported last week that in connection with the expense-account questions...