“Once more unto the breach, dear friends,” the hero (Sean Connery) announces as the story begins. He means, somebody hastens to explain, a breach of Soviet security; a libidinous Russian ...

Morial Convention Center in downtown New Orleans in mid-April. I was there, with more than 14,000 attendees involved in the enterprise of cancer science, to attend the annual meeting of the American ...

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to ...