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...Well, maybe flu. (Last time Yeltsin admitted to "flu" it was really pneumonia, and he was out of action for two months.) But there's no cause for alarm, officials claimed last week: the President will keep working while he is resting for 10 or 12 days in the sanatorium that is conveniently located next to his suburban residence. This little respiratory infection, they say, is merely the unlucky result of the President's failure to wear a hat during a visit to Sweden...
...Grand Opera. The son of a peripatetic Texas preacher, he had given up earlier plans for the ministry to pursue a career in music, supporting himself, his wife and two children with jobs that ranged from rehearsal conductor to part-time English teacher to occupational therapist at a tuberculosis sanatorium. But he was pushing 40, and his struggle against his homosexuality was unraveling both his marriage and his academic post in a religious school. An attempt to reverse his musical fortunes on Broadway had come to naught. Then, in 1970, Applewhite got a break: lead baritone in the American opera...
...fury abates with Marcella, one of Bridie's daughters. Recovering in a TB sanatorium, she falls in love with Earl Taylor, a handsome young black man who delivers groceries. Their son is Elgin, and his daughter is Rayona. Dorris, whose own ancestry is Irish, French and Modoc Indian, writes that "the past ruled the present with unsympathetic dominion." And until Rayona, this is true. With her, the future is April going on May. Her reappearance at the end of this intricate and brooding second novel cools like a spring breeze...
Well before sunrise on Tuesday morning, a high-speed convoy of government vehicles made the short drive from Boris Yeltsin's luxurious sanatorium in the village of Barvikha to the heart center on the edge of Moscow. The patient was in a good mood, his spokesman reported later, and joked with the doctors. After two months of waiting, wild rumors and some nasty Kremlin infighting, the Russian President's heart-bypass operation--a procedure as crucial politically as it was medically--had finally become a reality. At 2 p.m., after seven hours in the operating room, during which Yeltsin...
...Russia today seems as unsettled as ever. The economy again appears in deep trouble, the war in Chechnya has flared up after a brief campaign-induced lull, and the Communist-dominated parliament is again flexing its considerable political muscle. Instead of taking charge, Yeltsin has taken refuge at a sanatorium outside Moscow. He has left behind a team whose members are united largely by political expediency and spend more time jockeying for position than running the country...