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...realize that unity could cost up to $100 billion, and East Germans are apprehensive about massive unemployment. Kohl wants the election to take place before Germans sour on the idea -- or him. "Act soon," Kohl said his advisers told him. Added Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "History does not repeat its offers...
...Walser, who is from Baltimore, it was a perfect opportunity to give the hometown fans a taste of her normal late-game heroics, which she would repeat one month later in Princeton...
...most notably by eliminating the oath to avenge church prophets and blood-curdling secrecy vows ("We agree that our throats be cut from ear to ear"). Ritual secrets are believed to let a Mormon pass into the highest levels of heaven. After performing the rite for themselves, Mormons may repeat it over and over for the vicarious benefit of dead relatives. But by some accounts, the number performing such "temple work" has been falling off. A briefer, modernized ritual could help reverse that trend. Says Mormon author Allen Roberts: "The ceremony is less harsh, less threatening, less offensive...
...most spectacular bailout would be a repeat of the Berlin airlift launched by the U.S., Britain and France when the Soviets cut off supplies to the city's western sectors in 1948. But as Paul Craig Roberts, professor of political economy at Georgetown University, notes, "It's a crackpot idea." West Berlin, then as now, was under the control of the three Allies and could be reached through an air corridor to which they had legal access. Getting to Lithuania, whether by plane, train, truck or ship, would mean violating the Soviet border -- as Moscow draws it anyway. "That...
...Rome, the Seder was a meal based on the feasts of the ruling aristocracy--a forceful, concrete expression of a lust for freedom. Drinking the wine of joy and tasting the bitter herbs of slavery, we experience both the freedom and the unfreedom around us. Most importantly, we repeat aloud our dedication to furthering the struggle...