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Brandt, 73, who had been SPD leader since 1964, fell victim to the intense feuding between leftists and moderates that has virtually paralyzed the party. The crowning controversy was his effort to appoint a 30-year-old Greek emigre named Margarita Mathiopoulos as the party's chief spokeswoman. Not only did she not belong to the SPD, she was not even a German citizen. Brandt's successor will be Hans-Jochen Vogel, 61, the party's parliamentary leader...
Well, we get dese chips and piquante sauce. Dey OK. We eat dem up. Drink Corona beer and goutons a Margarita ($2.95). "Dis Margarita tastes like Windex!" my frien' says. But don't dey all? C'est comme...
...Lyubimov's view, the child was echoing the amoral views of a teacher and, in turn, the state. An attentive father who travels everywhere accompanied by his second wife Katya, a Hungarian, and son Piotr, 7, Lyubimov will next mount an adaptation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard in May and Berg's Lulu at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in November, followed by a string of European dates. He describes himself unhappily as "homeless" but says he would like to educate his son in the U.S.: "Here, schoolchildren would give...
What I had to do was to develop a talent "to save," and I developed it, God knows. I tried to make sure that "manuscripts don't burn," to borrow a phrase from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita -- and to make sure that Andrei's writing would not rot in the cellars of Lubyanka or some other prison...
Fisher, 64, has earned his reward the hard way. He first read about the wrecked Spanish treasure galleons Nuestra Senora de Atocha and her sister ship Santa Margarita in 1960 in the Treasure Hunter's Guide, which included references to the two ships sinking off the "Keys of Matecumbe" in a 1622 hurricane. Several years later Fisher met Eugene Lyon, who was beginning research for a doctoral dissertation on the history of the Spanish conquest of Florida. Lyon was about to leave for Seville to study Spanish archives, and Fisher enlisted his aid in the search for the galleons...