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...other hand, Yuri Maltsev, a former economic advisor to Gorbachev and now a fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, estimates that at least 40 percent of the Soviet economy operates in the informal sector...
DVORAK, SYMPHONY NO. 6; JANACEK, TARAS BULBA (London). Though Dvorak composed at least four great symphonies in which Czech-flavored melodies flow with Schubertian ease and Brahmsian grandeur, he is known mostly for his ninth, the "New World." Christoph von Dohnanyi leads his Cleveland Orchestra here in a fine performance of the sixth and a deftly dramatic reading of Leos Janacek's programmatic rhapsody Taras Bulba...
...British naval supremacy," which had gone virtually unchallenged since Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory over a French fleet at Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter years of the 19th century, however, France and Russia had constructed seemingly formidable armadas. More worrisome, Germany, under the prodding of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was rapidly building a war fleet to protect its commercial interests and colonial empire. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany led to an arms race that in its consequence was deadlier than the postwar nuclear buildup of the U.S. and Soviet Union. For as Massie persuasively argues, that oceanic...
...Dungeons & Dragons; Bledsoe does a far better job of explaining that game. Both books are freighted with pointless multigenerational background for the main characters, but Bledsoe's is less tedious. Not only are the co-conspirators almost ciphers in McGinniss's book, but so is the murdered husband Lieth Von Stein, while Bledsoe brings him alive...
Mostly, however, the divergence of the books demonstrates the journalistic axiom that access is everything. Bonnie Von Stein felt abused by the police and prosecutors and didn't like the final verdict; she was convinced the wrong youth had been named as principal assailant. So McGinniss takes an artificially long 200 pages to get anyone arrested and even then keeps casting doubt on the official story, to the point of raising last-minute doubts about the complete innocence of Von Stein's daughter. Bledsoe, however, seemingly had help from the police and builds the latter half of his book around...