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...Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Knopf; 502 pages; $30), carries the still astonishing story of the fall of communism, from the rise of Solidarity in Poland in 1980 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Remnick's book, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia (Random House; 398 pages; $25.95), picks up the tale in 1991 and brings it through Yeltsin's white-knuckle re-election last year...
...suddenly was no longer an organized society but a state of chaos. In the span of one week, what had begun as spontaneous revolts in a few southern cities turned all of the country into a Mad Max movie: children brandishing grenades and automatic rifles; wholesale looting; and frenetic, random gunfire--an utter collapse of civil authority. Foreign nationals were fleeing the country, many by helicopter airlift. Small, sun-washed Albania had become the state of Anarchia...
...armed to their caps or babushkas, the citizenry had turned into the proverbial mob with many heads but no brains. Hospitals have treated gunshot wounds day and night. Many people retreated from the streets altogether, but a housewife washing dishes in the city of Elbasan was reportedly killed by random gunfire...
...ones. For instance, he likes American Express's summer program that pays teachers to train students in the travel-agency business. "I asked them to double it to 5,000 kids." He realized during his book tour that remaindered books get destroyed. "I told Harry Evans [his publisher at Random House] to figure a way to get these books to kids." He pulls out a letter from Herman Cain, the head of Godfather's Pizza and the National Restaurant Association, offering to persuade 33,000 restaurants to start school-to-work and welfare-to-work programs. Although some organizers worry...
...fellow soldier, the guard opened fire on the children, who were some 50 yards away, chasing them down a hillside as they fled. A s the dead and injured children were carried to nearby hospitals on both sides of the border, it appeared that the shooting was the random act of a mentally-unbalanced man. Israeli Defense Minister David Levy, however, linked the shooting to diploma tic tensions that grew worse with King Hussein?s letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several days ago, which read in part: "How can I work with you as a partner and true...