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...semiregular Chronicles department that follows the undignified doings of the Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Like Charlie Chaplin's lampoon of Hitler in The Great Dictator, it deflates a truculent buffoon without losing sight of the fact that some windbags blow up with a bang. "Bruce is a first-rate journalist whose work has a witty bite to it," says assistant managing editor Jim Kelly. "He lets the irony and absurdity grow out of the news, instead of just imposing jokes on what happened last week." And like the Supreme Court, which last week paid unanimous tribute to the usefulness...
Born in the central Russian town of Engels, Schnittke, half Jewish and half German, had the misfortune to belong to two of the old Soviet Union's least favorite ethnic groups. But he was luckier than most; his father, a journalist of Russian-Jewish extraction who was born in Germany, was posted to Vienna in the mid-1940s. The family moved to Moscow in 1948, where the bilingual Alfred began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory...
Andrew: I'm really glad Steve hare is calling our bluff, because I want a journalist to get on our case and encourage us to think. And we just have these snide answers. We all listen to whatever we can get our hands on that interests us. I guess everyone who's listening to music has a collection of interests they're pursuing, ideas that they look for, different bands that might be attacking these ideas in different ways... and we all have totally different ideas of what bands are doing creative things...
Most Demeaning Performance by a Journalist (Not Including Rather-Chung Promos): CBS's Al Trautwig, to Italian cross-country skier Manuela di Centa after her victory in the 15-km race: "Was it the skis, the wax or your heart...
...fanatic Jewish precincts in Hebron, settlers danced in the streets and praised Goldstein's martyrdom. The Purim parades continued as if nothing had happened, and some residents of Kiryat Arba called his act "a great gift." One settler, stopped by a soldier as she tried to assault a Palestinian journalist, shrieked, "We should kill...