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...Gorbachev phenomenon is the result of Soviet pride and Soviet shame. For more than a generation, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. have lived with that contradiction. They have had the satisfaction of knowing their country was a superpower -- and the frustration of living in a backward economy. They made their homes in crowded, decrepit dwellings. Shopping for necessities was a daily despair. Citizenship itself was often an insult and sometimes an injury. Their government would not let them express their thoughts or travel abroad. For years they could explain it all away: the hardship was the aftermath of the Great...
...people -- whose name was so often taken in vain by their rulers -- longed for a leader with verve and vision, someone who would represent their pride rather than their shame. There was, therefore, a national murmur of interest in 1979, when the country got its first look at Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev at a televised awards ceremony. Not only did this new Central Committee Secretary, then 48, seem at ease among the ruling septuagenarians; he was the only one able to say thank you for his medal without reading from a 3-by-5 card...
...exchange of glances in a rearview mirror. Or of his trust in a script that speaks most eloquently through silences and indirection. All, finally, have placed their faith in the audience's ability to read their delicately stated work with the responsiveness it deserves. It would be a shame to fail them...
...Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue carrying signs and taunting fur-coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel, and fur is archaic." Two weeks ago, the city council in Aspen, Colo...
...state inquiry impinges on press freedom and is politically awkward: registry-board members are appointed by the Governor. A better idea would be to shame media and "experts" into ending the practice. Says George Annas, professor of medical ethics at Boston University: "The board shouldn't regulate this. It calls for self-restraint on the part of journalists and professionals, and that is very hard...