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...fact that this book has been published at all is a testament to Sakharov's irrepresible spirit. On four separate occasions KGB agents stole his notes, diaries, and drafts of the book. In one of these thefts he lost nine hundred pages of manuscript. At first he did not plan to publish Memoirs, but the setbacks, rather than demoralizing him, convinced him that they must be published...
...Dodgers are a testament to the virtues of stability; the team has needed just two managers since 1954, and Lasorda was rewarded with a new contract that will keep him bleeding Dodger blue until 1992. But baseball's other senior statesmen have found losing almost impossible to endure. Last season Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson needed to take a month off to recover as his team plummeted to the basement. Herzog was admirably frank as he resigned from the last-place Cardinals: "I couldn't get them to play better. Anybody could have done better than...
...congregations; 7,600 missionaries in the U.S. and 116 foreign lands; $4.6 billion a year in receipts. Unhappy too because of the divisions caused by a populist drive to enforce belief in the inerrancy of the Bible, from Adam and Eve to Paul's authorship of the New Testament epistles bearing his name...
They are perhaps the most chilling words in the New Testament: "His blood be on us and on our children." This verse (Matthew 27: 25), in which Jews seemingly take responsibility for Christ's death, has for centuries been cited as biblical justification for Jewish suffering. With anti-Semitic incidents on the rise in Europe, nervous eyes were steadied last week on the Bavarian Alpine village of Oberammergau (pop. 5,000), where the decennial Passion play, condemned by Jews as anti-Semitic, opened once again with the "blood curse" intact but muted...
Tiffany trained as a painter; several of his mediocre oils are included in the show, testament more to his sense of composition than his skill with a brush. Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an interior decorator, he brought exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats...