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...their trudging, cringing body English. Shops boarded up. The driver, who is, improbably, a Russian, pitches the Renault along, overrevving and popping the clutch, to the National Library. It is a splendid 19th century Moorish building that has been hammered so often, so heavily, that it is a gutted shell. In a city where more than 17,000 have been killed and 110,000 wounded since the siege began last spring, it may be odd to be disturbed by the fate of a building. But to murder a library is metaphysically sinister and wanton. What dies, of course, is more...
...handling of Chernobyl is hardly reassuring. When workers finished the huge steel-and-concrete shell that entombs the intensely radioactive mass of the shattered No. 4 reactor in late 1986, Soviet officials declared the site safe for at least 30 years. Yet today the sarcophagus is cracked, crumbling and in peril of a disastrous collapse. The melted-down fuel is turning to unstable dust. Contaminated objects are being smuggled out of the poorly guarded 1,092-sq.-mi. exclusion zone. Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure...
Gordon Hammersley, Hammersley's Bistro, Tremont St. "Oysters on the half shell with as much champagne as we can get in. Turkey with a myriad of vegetables--turnips brussels sprouts my favorite, lots of rutabaga I love Rutabaga gizzards of turkey made into confit--braised in duck and goosefeet. cranberry sauce with scotch bonnet hot peppers and gravy--in the restaurant business we call it sauce, at home we call it gravy...
Others were not so enthused about the game. Carrie E. Benes '96 insisted that she would not shell out $25 for football. "My father's coming that weekend and I'll probably have better things to do," she said...
...Depression. In the final stages of the cold war, the U.S. became a debtor nation. A noncombatant like Japan seemed more the beneficiary of America's struggle than was the nominal victor. The hard question no one in the U.S. dared raise was whether, in bringing down the shell of the U.S.S.R., this country had been hollowing itself out economically. Many have wondered why the cold war's end has brought so little celebration. Was the U.S. victory like Muhammad Ali's over George Frazier in Manila, where the fighters burnt out their internal . circuits in the general conflagration...