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When the Soviets lifted a rebel siege of the strategically placed town of Khost at the end of December, some Western diplomatic observers and Pakistani analysts in Islamabad thought that would give them a pretext to declare victory in the eight-year-old war and begin pulling out. But the...
While Pittsburgh draws its potable water from the unaffected Allegheny River, some nearby cities and towns on the Monongahela were forced to shut off their river intakes completely. The authorities tried to cope by tapping into the fire hydrants of unpolluted water systems and reopening old wells. Governor Robert Casey...
James Warren Jones, by contrast, was something of a weirdo. As a boy in the casket-making town of Lynn, Ind., he used to conduct elaborate funeral services for dead pets. Later, as a struggling preacher, he went from door to door, in bow tie and tweed jacket, selling imported...
Artists and administrators need the courage to chart a more rewarding course, but audiences do too. Those who hailed the deaf Beethoven at the Ninth Symphony's unveiling, who lined the streets of Milan for Verdi's funeral, who wept as the dying Brahms took a final public bow at...
That exchange has never been reported in the Soviet Union, nor was Gorbachev's confirmation to Tom Brokaw last month that he discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with Raisa. If it were known that Raisa had once contradicted her husband before a foreign leader -- well, that could only...