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Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose novels chronicled the daily horrors of life in Soviet gulags, has died from heart failure on August 3 in Moscow at age 89, the Associated Press reported...
...diet of bread, broth and oats he ate in the labor camps. He rose early every day and wrote until dusk - producing, among other works, his novel-cycle The Red Wheel, a vast, Tolstoyan account of the Russian revolution that runs to 6,000 pages, beginning with August...
...face of international pressure Friday, removing a wide range of filters blocking access to websites beyond China's so-called Great Firewall. The move followed negotiations with the International Olympic Committee, sought by the IOC after numerous complaints from reporters arriving in Beijing to cover the Games that open August 8. Even at the main Olympic press center, access to the Web had been heavily restricted...
Correction Appended: August...
...weren't a flop - Paulson proudly points to the failure of anti-China trade legislation in Congress and the 20% rise in the yuan vs. the dollar - but they weren't a dramatic success either. Then came trouble, which spread from subprime mortgages to financial markets in general in August 2007. The chief connection was that subprime loans - those sold to less qualified borrowers - were purchased and repackaged by Wall Street into supposedly low-risk investment products called collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). When shaky borrowers began defaulting en masse on their mortgages, the whole scheme unraveled...