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...Okla., who was sidelined in late March with a dislocated left elbow and bone chip, recuperated from surgery in record time, and is now stronger and more confident than ever. Spectators who favor a dynamic, explosive style will want to wager on Zmeskal. Those who appreciate technical brilliance and high-level difficulty, however, will prefer the graceful Miller...
Take Mikhail from St. Petersburg. A 42-year-old mathematician who taught in a high-level university for 18 years, he has been forced for the past year to sing for pennies on Jerusalem's pedestrian mall. Store-keepers shoo him away, passersby laugh at him. He cannot stand the shame of making a fool of himself before fellow Jews...
...spite of the presumption that the fundamentalists were behind the killing, some Algerians speculated that factions inside the army could have been nervous about Boudiaf's announced intention to investigate and punish high-level corruption. Others thought members of the National Liberation Front, the socialist party overthrown by the army, might have ordered the assassination...
Then matters darken and deepen. March, harassed by Gestapo thugs, finds documents showing that Buhler was present at a high-level conference at Wannsee on Jan. 20, 1942. Another who attended was Adolf Eichmann. The meeting dealt with a concept March has never heard mentioned: "the final solution of * the Jewish question" and the planning of death camps. In shock he takes the papers and, with the Gestapo close behind, commandeers a car in a desperate run to the Swiss border...
Baker would provide something Bush has lacked since John Sununu departed last December: a high-level bad cop who can keep the troops in line and sometimes read the riot act to Bush himself. Bush's aversion to conflict makes him a congenial fellow, which is a recipe for failure in a presidential campaign. Yet Bush resents having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, / and the Secretary has long since grown tired of coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot...