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...million a year, which makes Mansky, 28, one of Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting ready to flee. Of course I will vote, but there is not much choice. No matter what one might think of Yeltsin, he's the only one, because there is no one else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VOTERS' MANY VOICES: HARDLY ANY HAPPY CHOICES | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...study abroad. But what if you realize in the second semester of your sophomore year that you would love to go to Florence for your junior year but have never taken Italian? I guess you can take day trips to Florence from England, but most likely you will just shrug your shoulders and say, "Oh well, maybe when I graduate." And yet, there is no way to know as a first-year that in two years you might desperately crave a break from oh-so-suffocating Harvard and crimson-tainted Cambridge...

Author: By Erica S. Schacter, | Title: Race for Careers Slows Learning | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

...Birdcage has made Lane a movie star, but Forum shows his true home is the stage. On his shoulders--so eloquent in a shrug or a shudder--he carries this burly romp, and a good share of Broadway's hopes for a year worth singing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THEY DO MAKE 'EM LIKE THAT | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

Gies' modest recounting of her daredevil acts makes goodness seem almost routine, the norm, in a time when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring film--an antidote to Holokitsch--is their testament. It alerts us that villainy is the rank soil in which heroism can flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SAINTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...woman willing to battle puffed-up men on television. For our part, we said how much we liked Father of the Bride, Part II (we laughed, we cried, better than Cats), but in the way you can never really have interplanetary conversations, this wounded her. In her Annie Hall shrug you could sense echoes of Hillary Clinton--"For goodness' sake, you can't be an actress if you don't play a Happy Housewife once in a while." She left before we could say we laughed, we cried at Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VOTE WITH YOUR BOOKS | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

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