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...dacha in the country outside Moscow, the self-absorbed extended family living there oblivious to events in the outside world, the visitor whose energy and mystery stir this nest of gentlefolk -- Burnt by the Sun has the air of something Chekhov or Turgenev might have imagined...
...like a fish out of water." Those who could walk staggered up three flights of stairs to the clean, fresh air. Some vomited; others lay rigid. Kennedy emerged, but he couldn't see; the gas had temporarily blinded him. Three young women clung together like small birds in a nest, trembling and crying. Yet they made no sound; the gas had silenced their voices...
...swear to keep hands off the system with the electoral equivalent of burning at the stake. This attitude certainly exists, and not only among older Americans of modest means. Leonard Schwartz, 52, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, earns a six-figure income and has built up a sizable nest egg for the retirement he hopes to start early. Even so, he's worried. "I'm going to be relying in part on those [Social Security] benefits. If they start cutting in 10 or 15 years, after I've retired, there's going to be no way for me to adjust...
...brink of bankruptcy until the next check from home or the payroll office comes through. Why would robbers come to a student center? We spend all our money on tuition, books, CDs and clothes anyway. Few take the advice of Professor Martin S. Feldstein '61 and start that nest-egg early...
...Whoever may be involved''--that's just where one of Mandela's problems lies. The person who has received the most attention recently, both for embarrassing the government and for possibly feathering her nest, is Mandela's estranged wife Winnie. Two weeks ago in Johannesburg, at the funeral of a black police officer killed in a fight with white policemen, Winnie Mandela addressed the crowd of mourners. She accused the government of failing to eliminate racism from the workplace and of ``overindulgence in reconciliation'' with whites. ``Are we in power,'' she demanded, ``or just in the government...