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...expectation that one can glide through history unpunished and rewrite one's own biography" one of "the traditional Central European delusions." More pointedly, Havel declared, "Whoever fears to look his own past in the face must necessarily fear what is to come. Lies cannot save us from lies." Asked afterward whether Havel might have had him in mind, Waldheim was belligerent. "Certainly not," he told Austrian TV. "I did not rewrite my biography...
Horowitz also knows the quieter side of Burns. "My parents died 10 years ago," she says, "and afterward I really fell apart. Of all my family and friends, she was the one who hung in there." In fact Burns has had a couple of setbacks in life, both impossible to conceal, and handled them with admirable determination and reserve. In high school her face was badly cut in a car crash, and it took several operations to repair the damage. Years later, just before she was to be married to a man well known in the cosmetics business, his company...
...Afterward, when their daughter was buried and their hearts broken, the Bells could see everything clearly. Until then, they had not thought about their teenager's getting pregnant or what they would do if she did. They did not know that there was any such thing as a parental-consent...
Passed in 1956 at the behest of the powerful West German trade unions, the closing law has resisted almost every effort to liberalize it. Last year Bonn managed to push through an optional extension of business hours on most Thursday nights, to 8:30 p.m. For weeks afterward, people went around saying it would cost Helmut Kohl the next national election -- and, who knows, they may be right...
...pact after a 70-hour marathon of closed-door bargaining with provincial premiers in Ottawa. Last week he saw that deal fall apart when the legislatures of Manitoba and Newfoundland adjourned without taking ratification votes. "Today is not the day to launch new constitutional initiatives," a somber Mulroney said afterward. "It is a time to heal wounds and reach out to fellow Canadians...