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After World War II, the Soviet Union invited all its emigres to come home and help rebuild the motherland. Most of them were instantly killed or sent to the Gulag, victims of Stalinist paranoia. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive. Oleg Menchikov plays a doctor, valuable to the state, who gets along by pretending to go along. Sandrine Bonnaire is his French-born wife, on whom the state visits its worst depredations. But East-West is more than their story; it is a great, gray epic of a society wasted and terrorized...
...system, however, would use much of the same difficult and costly technology that doomed the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Perfecting it now will be daunting--if not impossible. EDGE China, which could try to use the threat of missile attack to lure Taiwan back to the motherland...
...move that struck many in Moscow's downtrodden business circles as quixotic, BMW set up shop in Russia last fall. The arrival represents a return to an area closely linked with German history. Before World War II, the Russian region of Kaliningrad, separated from the motherland by Poland and Lithuania, was Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia. From 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it served as a major Soviet naval base and was off limits to Westerners. But now BMW's $25 million joint venture is up and running and--mirabile dictu--is actually assembling cars from...
...Africa. As Rivers says, it's long past time for black leaders "to come from under the shroud of denial and apathy" and make fighting the African AIDS crisis a front-burner issue in next year's presidential campaign. In other words, to transform our professed love for our Motherland into more than Afrocentric lip service...
...Sometimes as an African-American I feel out of touch with Africa. As a student at Harvard sitting in the audience, I had a chance to get in touch with the motherland. I hope it becomes an annual event," James said...