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...answer, I think, is that, like every other nationality in the world, the Russian people need a history to cling to. The Soviet Union melted away more than a decade ago and since then the terrors of the country’s brave experiment with communism have finally been adequately unearthed. Many Russians can no longer take pride in their broken Soviet past. And as the Orthodoxy regains its centrality in Russian life, the values of old Russia—stressing faith, family and allegiance to one’s country—have begun to provide a new historical...
...Exercises like this, from a sixth-grade Arabic textbook: "Add not to the following sentence: 'The Iranians are brave...
...Even though I am a Hindu, i found my heart swelling as I learned of the brave efforts of Christians to break through the religious imprisonment of official Islam [June 30]. Moderate Islam seems paralyzed by virulent radicals. The moderate Islamic majorities seem incapable of resisting the hate and violence being taught in madrasahs. To effect a permanent change of heart in a substantial number of Middle Easterners, a new, inspired and courageous force seems appropriate. The disease of religious fascism urgently requires treatment. Christians have the ideology and determination to risk their lives to offer a cure. Sai Ramananda...
Among the witnesses marshalled by Cochran for the defense was Hank Aaron, the former Atlanta Brave who unseated Babe Ruth as the player with the most career home runs...
What sets these documentaries apart is that they offer something more than talking heads and earnest messages. Documentaries need, Urman says, "the narrative virtues that fiction films have"--story arc, character development, adventure. Winged Migration audiences can somehow identify with those brave, pretty birds beating their way up and down the planet on their migratory paths. And, of course, they can identify with the human subjects of the other docs. But is that really why they're watching...