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...reds became the largest party in parliament with 22.3% of the vote in last December's elections, and they are mobilizing their national network to take the presidency, the really important post, in June. If they manage it, they intend to do communism right this time. They plan to reconstruct and revive the monster of the Soviet Union as a communist state. They would reimpose price controls and central economic planning, renationalize key industries and, probably, turn back toward authoritarian rule. If they pull it off, they would inflict immense damage on Russia and its relations with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96 RUSSIA: THE UNDEAD RED | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...ability to write and to love. However, her inward vulnerability, romanticism, and rebellious nature eventually catch up to her; she becomes one of J. Edgar Hoover's "reliable enemies". The goddess is crushed by the onslaught of the FBI and the American media and Fuentes is left to reconstruct the ideals of his literary career and his perceptions of love...

Author: By Elaine Yu, | Title: Of Gringos and Goddesses | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...there is likely to be the same. The exodus points up some potentially serious flaws in the Dayton peace agreement, says Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The Dayton agreement is made up of two contradictory halves. The military part divides the country and the civilian part tries to reconstruct and reunify it. The problem is that Dayton's civilian measures are not strong enough to unify and maintain Bosnia. It is not clear, however, what measures one could have come up with to effectively unify Bosnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serb Exodus Produces Bosnian Ghost Town | 2/23/1996 | See Source »

Engel's production works best as a record of how people reconstruct their pasts; the subject itself, which relates a lot of all-too-familiar hardship, has lost its impact. Spoon River is occasionally sad, seldom funny, but not meant to be either. Nor is it meant to be tragic. Rather the mood is elegiac in that it tries to describe the need for people to tell their stories as they would like them to be remembered. History, according to Spoon River, is constructed piecemeal and painstakingly from scraps assembled and melded together...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Memory Ignites in Nora Theater's Spoon | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...hasn't been an issue particularly, and therefore people have been added out," says Rudenstine. "Because putting things in little boxes, that's sort of the way somebody wants to know it...it's not so easy to reconstruct 20 years, or leave alone six or seven or eight...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: Profs. Criticize Administration's Size | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

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