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...winter without food. Famine has recurred with frightening regularity during seven decades of communist rule. "Hunger did not start with perestroika," explains Dmitri Pushkar, a deputy on the Yaroslavl regional council, who monitors food supplies in the countryside. "It began with the coming of Soviet power." Vadim, a local taxi driver, puts it more bluntly: "I remember the postwar famine of 1947, when we had nothing to eat but nettles and goose feet. So what else...
Hope tells of having trouble with an "extremely heavy suitcase" while in New York for a March meeting to vote on the selection of Neil L. Rudenstine as Harvard's 26th president. Hope, who lifts weights for exercise, considered taking a taxi for a trip of several blocks in cold, windy weather...
...could call him the John Sununu of Poland. He's a college dropout and part- time taxi driver who followed LECH WALESA out of the Gdansk shipyards to become his personal bodyguard and chauffeur. Today MIECZYSLAW WACHOWSKI is sitting pretty in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace running the President's private office. He apparently sees himself at the center of Walesa's inner circle of advisers, but his colleagues regard him as boorish, arrogant and power hungry. Like Woody Allen's Zelig, he has elbowed his way into so many official photo ops that local photographers delight in cropping...
...entertaining; it anticipates, satisfies and then trumps the moviegoer's expectations. It plunders film history (The Night of the Hunter, Psycho, even Spielberg's shooting stars) and creates, in De Niro's character, a loner driven to impossible extremes by the voices inside him. He is brother to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle and Raging Bull's Jake La Motta, and evil twin to Jesus in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ...
JERUSALEM IS, then, in a very real danger of fulfilling the prophesies of its worst critics as the fundamentalism of both Judaism and Islam is engulfing the city in an impossible atmosphere of demands and absolutes. "We will never surrender Jerusalem," my taxi driver explained. "Maybe part of the West Bank, but give them our holy city and see them burn down our quarter as they did in '48--no, surely you must be joking...