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Living With Nuclear Weapons may well have little practical impact: the disproportion between man's ability to eliminate nuclear arms and nuclear arms' capacity to eliminate man is the most tragic irony of the nuclear age. But if the first four decades of coexisting with nuclear weaponry proves anything, it is this: man cannot diminish the likelihood of nuclear holocaust until he comes to grips intellectually with the complexity of the problem and rejects the easy panaceas of both the Left and the Right. The authors of Living With Nuclear Weapons recognize this; perhaps one day they will be looked...
...Erofeev is Sheherezade, avoiding one thousand and one train fares by telling obscene stories to chief Ticket Inspector Semyonych. He is Oedipus, parrying the ribald riddles of a drunken Sphinx. He is Dante descending through the Moscow circles of Hell, his Virgil a bottle of Stolychnaya. And in the tragic denouement, Erofeev becomes Christ on Golgotha, crying out in anguish "Why, oh Lord, did you forsake...
...modest two-story house in Arlington, Kaminskaya widens her piercing blue eyes at the memory of her victory in the courtroom 14 years ago. The 63-year-old advocate brought to America a treasured photo of Sasha, grown up, that is touchingly inscribed to her. But she has other, tragic memories of the dissidents she could not save from injustice: Yuri Galanskov, who died of mistreatment in the Gulag; Ilya Gabay, who killed himself in despair; Anatoli Marchenko, who was sent back to the camps for ten years after three terms of imprisonment and exile...
...sore thumb," says Harris, whose lawyer last week filed a motion for a new trial. She hopes to prove that she was mentally incompetent during some of the proceedings. "I did not murder Hy [Tarnower]," insists Harris. "There is a difference between murdering and killing. It was a tragic accident." It will be another two months before the Westchester County court decides whether a new trial is warranted. Meanwhile, life in prison continues for Harris, who celebrated her 60th birthday over the weekend. Now living in a special house with private rooms at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional...
...likely to read much in the future. The waning of media attention for executions is natural--and disturbing--as capital punishment becomes more commonplace in this country. But the Evans case raises once again the questions surrounding capital punishment, and not only because of its bizarre and tragic circumstances. It deserves not merely a discussion of how to "improve" capital punishment--which would not answer the larger question of mental pain--but also reconsideration of whether there can be any method of capital punishment that is humane...