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What scared the leadership was that so many people could assemble without the normally vigilant security services' finding out. Some Westerners were comparing it to the flight of German Mathias Rust, who landed his small plane in Red Square in 1987, an audacious act that showed up the limits of...
Serbian troops have demolished block after block in Pristina, the provincial capital. Beauty shops and bookstores are burned; cafes, stationery stores, pharmacies, a baby shop with infant supplies and toddler toys, accountants' offices--all are a shambles. Desks and office chairs are overturned; drawers with papers are strewn about. Glass...
Both Dr. Katz and Dr. Coley are extremely hesitant to suggest that RSIs are not predominantly mechanical, ergonomic phenomena. For Dr. Katz, there is a danger in implying that the disorder is a psychological one. "There is just as much evidence for biological causation as for most other disorders and...
Her lost love is a self-destructive genius. Her new husband is a fussbudget academic. Caught between them, Annette Bening's tragic heroine suffers a kind of influenza of the soul--fevers and chills alternating while she tries to maintain her politesse in provincial society. This is risky work for...
Mimicking the attitude of most provincial Americans with regards to Europe, typical River-dwellers marginalize the Quad as "a nice place to visit--but I wouldn't want to live there." The Quad, like a stereotypical European town, has been pastoralized as a picturesque locale lacking the modern conveniences of...