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...DECIDED early on to walk freely, yet carefully among the four quarters of Jerusalem's old city: the Christian, the Muslim, the Jewish and the Armenian. "Be bold, but not too bold," a professor of mine had told me. With his advice in mind I spent the first few hours of every morning trekking above and through the labyrinth-like quarters of the old city...
...self-esteem" of Hispanic schoolchildren (the purpose of history is not to make people feel better), but because it accords with a large truth shrouded, at present, in omissions and lies. Columbus himself has been presented as Castilian, Catalan, Corsican, Majorcan, Portuguese, French, English, Greek and even Armenian. He was, in fact, Italian: born in Genoa in 1451, the son of a weaver...
Resisting contemporary wisdom is nothing new; Raffi has always been an outsider. Born in Cairo to Armenian parents, he moved with his family to Toronto when he was 10, facing the challenge of a new world and an unfamiliar language. He dropped out of the University of Toronto because what he wanted to learn was not offered there. "I'm interested in how life is, how the universe is, and how I'm a part of it," he says...
...hard-line former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among those who helped broker the agreement was Boris Yeltsin. The Russian president, who is suffering from a heart ailment, subsequently announced that he would take a two-week rest...
...combined with the fact that nearly all newly chosen officers of the Soviet government are Russians, meant that they had got rid of communist totalitarianism only to be swept up into a new Russian empire. "God save us from the nationalism of the Great People!" cried Genrikh Igityan, an Armenian Deputy, during one Supreme Soviet debate. Apparently realizing that he had overreached himself, Yeltsin late last week rescinded some decrees, including one asserting Russian control of state banks. That only added to the confusion: Viktor Gerashchenko, head of the Soviet central bank, Gosbank, was replaced one morning by Andrei Zverev...