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Raymond Chandler's classic hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe said, "The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything, and they are always right. "To say goodbye is to die a little.'"
Zosimova recalls in particular the New Year's Eve of 1942 in the midst of the bitterly cold first winter of the siege -- the winter that starvation set in and an estimated 1.5 million Leningraders began to die. "We were allowed to go into the city," she says. "I took...
During the question-and-answer session, Specter was unable to offer a cogent explanation for his a pro-abortion position. All of his responses boiled down to the following lame mantra: "The Supreme Court has decided the issue, and we are a nation of laws. The Supreme Court has decided...
With no fundamental policy differences between the candidates, the contest boiled down to one of personal and factional rivalries. Jospin appealed to the civil servants who make up an important part of the party's base; he also enjoyed the support of Rocardians, Delorists and others who hope to ``renovate...
While the Civil Rights movement sought to remove race as a relevant political category, i.e. to integrate races within one political culture, this new racial consciousness rejected "selling out," and taught that race must remain the distinctive political category. Minority leaders emerged and told their followers, "Refuse to let your...