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...life. Abetted by her mother, a "Messalina of the suburbs," Tissy turns out to harbor the tyrannical selfishness of the very weak. Their marriage is a fiasco. Lewis falls under the spell of Emmy, a passionate and extraverted actress who is the opposite of his wife in every way except relentless self-absorption. Although he resists Emmy's advances, his wife leaves him anyway. He drifts passively through decades of wistful misery, unable to attain pleasure or please others; even his housekeeper treats him with contempt...
Strong words, but Modrow hardly uttered them from a position of strength. With most of Modrow's countrymen in favor of unification and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl handling the merger as if it were a one-man takeover, Modrow is finding it difficult to get anyone except perhaps his closest relatives to consider him relevant. And with elections taking place Sunday, the Communist Prime Minister of East Germany has less than a week to go in an office that may not even exist by this time next year. Hans Modrow, 62, is the lamest of lame ducks: outgoing leader...
...players occupy a slightly higher moral ground, though only in comparison with their unspeakable employers. Given the way they have been lied to and cheated by the owners in the past, the players would argue, why should they not grab all the gusto they can now? No reason, really, except the danger that they will besmirch their livelihood in order to enrich...
...conflict now between the republic and the center. There is also the tragedy of the Aral Sea, which is dying. Prices for the republic's wool, coal, metallurgy and grain are set by the center, and the republic loses. Kazakhstan should decide its own cultural and economic problems, except those it willingly gives over to the center, such as the defense of borders or railroad lines...
...Except for the disputed dating, Kenyon's discoveries at Jericho were largely consistent with the Bible story. For one thing, she found that the city's walls had fallen in a way suggestive of sudden collapse. Many scholars think the destruction was caused by an earthquake, which could also account for a temporary damming of the Jordan River described in the Bible. Moreover, Kenyon found bushels of grain on the site. That is consistent with the Bible's assertions that Jericho was conquered quickly. If the city had capitulated after a long siege, the grain would have been used...