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...example, Harvard received no applications from Bulgaria two years ago. Last year, the admissions office reviewed approximately 40 applications from that country, Worth said...
Many East Europeans watched the dismantling of the Soviet Communist Party last week with a sense of deja vu. Although it has been almost a year since the last Soviet bloc nation was ruled by a communist monolith (Bulgaria in December), traces of the party still lace everyday life in most former satellites...
...does, however, increase the risk of a full-scale civil conflict and the possible involvement of countries with national minorities living in Yugoslavia, including Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania. Such an upheaval might also drive thousands of frightened refugees across the borders into Austria and Italy...
...excuse for this. Other professions have meetings of unpredictable length and accommodate by not overbooking. Surgery and emergencies? Pshaw, the last time I squatted forever in a waiting room, it was for a dermatologist. The doctor keeps you waiting because he has power over you, like a bureaucrat in Bulgaria in the old days. Indeed, visiting the doctor's office is like a taste of socialism -- the crowded waiting room with little to read but hectoring posters, the feeling of helplessness, the endless forms to fill out. Which is ironic, since the typical doctor's office is the most free...
Todor Zhivkov: Statesman and Builder of New Bulgaria, 1982. One year after this admiring biography was published, Zhivkov, now under house arrest for corruption and stealing state funds, awarded Maxwell the Order of Stara Planina for "the strengthening of peace between peoples...