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Today all the hopes, anxieties and contradictions of Russia's fumbling transition from communist monolith to Western-style free market are reflected in this city of 9 million. The crumbling of communism has rendered it a city adrift -- a metropolis that has lost its sense of historic mission and is...
For years, cable visionaries have promised a day when everyone from sailing enthusiasts to opera lovers would have a cable channel to suit his tastes. But the new cable programmers are pursuing a more old-fashioned strategy: aiming for a broad-based audience by replicating fare that already gluts the...
That Cayhall is a man the world could do without is clear to his grandson Adam, a shrewd, tough lawyer who turns up late in the game, determined to prevent the execution. So why fight? Adam doesn't have a clear answer, and Grisham wisely lets the reader find his...
"It may be that we can never be fully worthy of their sacrifice,but it is certain that to be worthy at all, we cannot turn inward or stand still," Albright said. "To do so, would be to dissipate the heritage of freedom and to renounce indispensable virtues."
She belonged to a time -- a tragedy -- when large literary lines did not seem off, or ridiculous, as they might now. Hamlet and Lear, "if worthy their prominent part in the play," wrote Yeats, "do not break up their lines to weep." She, magnificently, did not break up her lines...