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Mandela's long walk to freedom has ended in a jubilant, triumphant election week and the liberation he has worked 50 years to achieve. But his second struggle is just beginning. He now shoulders the mantle of the state, and while he will be praised for the things it achieves, he will be held responsible for everything it does not do for the people who expect the most. His plans may yet fail and his hopes collapse. But with his message of reconciliation and the euphoric support of the great majority of his countrymen last week, he was clearly...
...beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century," Kissinger writes, using a typically grandiloquent phrase to say by 1990, Wilsonian idealism "seemed triumphant." This does not please him. He concludes his book with sentences of pro forma praise for America's idealism followed by sentences that begin with But. In the end, the buts win: "American idealism remains as essential as ever, perhaps even more so. But in the new world order, its role will be to provide the faith to sustain America through all the ambiguities of choice in an imperfect world...
...Sunday watching in dismay as his championship Milan A.C. soccer team suffered a rare upset to archrival Naples. But there was no augury in the loss -- at least not for the moment. Just seconds after 10 the following night, when two days' worth of voting was done, Berlusconi stood triumphant on Italy's center stage; Forza Italia (Go Italy!), the party he had conjured from thin air barely three months ago, had emerged as the most important force in the country. In concert with the Northern League and the neo-Fascist National Alliance, the so-called Freedom Alliance had elbowed...
...sets so detailed that they looked suitable for a CinemaScope film. With their marble pillars and faux Titians, Michael Yeargan's new designs are nearly as lavish, but they are more subdued, allowing director Elijah Moshinsky to personalize the drama. Otello clutches his head in pain after his triumphant conquest of the Turks in Act I, prefiguring his complete moral and physical collapse two acts later; Desdemona tenderly but gingerly strokes her husband's face at their reunion, her love already mingled with fear...
Placido Domingo in a triumphant new Otello...