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...went to Moscow in 1995, four years after the fall of the Soviet Union and a year after Solzhenitsyn had returned from exile. By then I had read Gulag, and every time I walked through the Byelorusskaya metro station, I thought of the first chapter, in which he describes his arrival in Moscow in 1945, 11 days after he was arrested for criticizing Stalin in a letter. He is escorted by three intelligence officers, but "not one of the three knew the city," he writes, "and it was up to me to pick the shortest route to the prison...
...which few Australians have more than the sketchiest knowledge, yet it's hardly stretching things to call these women the mothers of a nation, or to suggest that it was partly through their struggles that elements of the archetypal Australian character were forged. Testament to how blurred this chapter of history has become is the difficulty curator Gay Hendriksen had in sourcing items for an exhibition which, though three years in the making, is a trifle light on astonishing artefacts. "I still believe the objects are out there," says Hendriksen, who suspects many convict descendants "don't want to talk...
These testimonies show that as a truth-seeking mechanism, Carr's approach is not foolproof. And it does have its narrative drawbacks. The story starts out choppy, moving back and forth within each brief chapter from Carr on crack to Carr manning the video camera. The chronological jumps cause some repetition, and Carr is not immune to the tic of capping off his vignettes with a punch line, which works better in a magazine than in a book...
...trial had been widely seen as the final chapter in an ongoing showdown between the AKP and the secularist establishment, particularly in the military and the courts. A military attempt to stare down Erdogan last year over the nomination of his own party's Abdullah Gul for President backfired: Erdogan called snap elections and was returned to power with 47% of the vote, an even greater margin than from when he was first elected. This time, it was the turn of the judiciary to lead the charge for secularism...
...born in Iran and spent a significant portion of his career in Britain. Additionally, the outgoing dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, is a native of India.The naming of a replacement for Bloom marks the end of a chapter in Harvard history, as Bloom was the last dean remaining who had been appointed by former President Neil L. Rudenstine.In just over a year in office, Faust has already had the opportunity to select many key deans, including for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, and Radcliffe...