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...wonder Vladimir Lenin looks pensive in this rare close-up taken in his tomb. It's bad enough that his eponymous city is St. Petersburg again, that statues of him are toppling everywhere and that the country he hammered together is falling apart. Now there are even threats to remove his embalmed remains from the Red Square Mausoleum, where they have lain in state since...
Reflexologists claim that the therapy dates back to at least 2330 B.C. and is depicted in a wall painting in an Egyptian tomb. It's a familiar theme. Egyptology figures in the credentials of a number of alternative remedies, as do claims that the British royal family are loyal patients. (The royals are said to be particularly fond of homeopathy, a system that treats diseases by administering tiny doses of the substances that might normally cause the same symptoms as the ailment.) "We're not just another New Age fairy tale" is also much heard. So says Marcel Lavabre, president...
Allied to this was the city as tomb, both futuristic and archaic, a kind of Mayan ruin referring only to itself, incomprehensible to its antlike inhabitants. This left its most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of the skyscraper age. But it also turns up in projects that were, however nominally, designed for the real world, like the huge pink mastabas of the "Metropolis" that Henri Sauvage hoped to raise beside the Seine...
...Mikhail Gorbachev panhandles the U.S. and McDonald's draws longer lines in Moscow than Lenin's tomb, it is difficult to believe that less than three decades ago, Washington and Moscow were on the steely edge of war. The drama and tension of those years are vividly recaptured in Michael Beschloss's The Crisis Years. But this is no simple rehash of John Kennedy's sparring with Nikita Khrushchev. Beschloss casts new light on topics ranging from the Cuban missile crisis to the security risks of J.F.K.'s sexual dalliances...
Outside the city, a huge gold-domed shrine marking the tomb of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died in 1989, is all but complete, and on weekends families flock there. But apart from a few offering fervent prayers near his tomb, most of the visitors chat and play with their children, unawed by the presence of the revolutionary imam's earthly remains...