pithy quotes

[Doug Henwood]

In his New York Times column today, William Safire quotes a remark made by
Vaclav Havel - once beautifully described by Alexander Cockburn as a
"sententious faker" - at his joint press conference with Bill Clinton
yesterday: "Better an ill Russia than a healthy Soviet Union."

Yesterday's Financial Times had a picture of a graffito on a wall in St
Petersburg - "Out of money? Kill a bank director," signed with a hammer and
sickle.

Doug