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Peace and U.S. security are inextricably linked to the fate of Russia's political and economic reforms. After the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, he described the battle as "the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life." Today President Boris Yeltsin has launched a radical program of economic reforms. Its fate will at best be a near run thing. Just as Wellington's victory determined the course of European history for the 19th century, the outcome of Yeltsin's bold gamble will decisively affect the history of the 21st century...
...made a public career of saving the planet. In 1985 he founded the Better World Society, which petered out late last fall but until then was meant to educate people about pollution, hunger and the arms race by producing documentaries. His heroes used to be Alexander the Great and Napoleon; now they are Martin Luther King and Gandhi. He used to talk about war as an efficient way to weed out the weak members of society; in 1986, to promote world peace, he staged the Goodwill Games in Moscow, on which he lost $26 million, and staged them again last...
...against the cold. A popular Russian caricature of the time had the Fritzes -- as German soldiers were less than affectionately called -- wrapped in anything they could grab out of occupied civilian homes -- including women's shawls and feather boas. Hitler, expecting the war to be over by October, made Napoleon's mistake, neglecting to plan for the exigencies of a Russian winter...
Still, DeVito's developing Napoleon complex is fun to watch, and Haskell Wexler's cinematography -- part semidocumentary, part burnished formalism -- is entrancing. It is a serious defect of our movies, our fictions in , general, that they generally ignore what may be the central, and is surely the most entertaining, drama in American life: high-stakes corporate wrangling. So here's one proxy cast in favor of Other People's Money, whose managers have at least risked opening a new product line in these difficult times...
...running. Just last year France looked well placed to become more than the center of gravity of a newly ascendant Europe. By some lights, it was emerging as the best of all possible worlds. Three centuries after the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and nearly two after Napoleon bestrode the Continent, Paris was confidently pulling the strings of Europe, positioning itself to be the capital of a new political-economic imperium...