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...related news, Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of last Aug. 31's car crash, today appealed for privacy for all the families involved "to let us mark this tragic anniversary in our own way." Rees-Jones taped a statement for APTV, the Associated Press's international video news agency, saying he would make no further public comments until the conclusion of a judicial inquiry into the crash in Paris...
...more profound considerations. The day before the funeral, the one living Russian with any claims to sainthood, Dmitri Likhachev, 91, spoke on the phone with the President and urged him to attend. Yeltsin is reputed to be in awe of Likhachev, a specialist in early Russian literature and a survivor of one of the worst of the early Soviet political prisons, where in previous centuries the Orthodox Church sent its dissidents. Soon after the call, Yeltsin announced he would travel to St. Petersburg, and during the ceremony Likhachev stood just behind the President...
...that's not to be. Private Ryan, one of the paratroopers dropped behind the lines on the eve of the invasion, is missing, and no less a figure than General George C. Marshall, the Army's Chief of Staff, has ordered his rescue. For Ryan is the last survivor of four brothers sent to war from an Iowa farm family. The memory of the five Sullivan brothers, killed together when their ship went down, is fresh in Marshall's mind. He will do anything to avoid a repetition of that tragedy. Or rather, he will ask others to do anything...
...stressed because I'm getting no help at home,' they were saying, 'I'm stressed out because my family molested me in the crib,'"explains social psychologist Carol Tavris. "The feelings of powerlessness many women continued to have in the early '90s got attached to sex-abuse-survivor syndrome." When Tavris debunked self-help books on incest-survivor syndrome in the New York Times Book Review in 1993, she received a flood of letters from feminist therapists calling her a betrayer...
...solidity have been destroyed in the name of war or progress (witness New York City's Pennsylvania Station). Some buildings, it seems, put down foundations in the psyche of their location; they may grow old but will never become dated. Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp is a certain survivor. Here are five others likely to outlive us all. --By Belinda Luscombe...