Word: communisme
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Clinton's move to open trade with Indonesia has made a mockery of the techniques of economic diplomacy. Since World War II, nations with strong economies have effectively used trade sanctions to combat apartheid in South Africa, totalitarianism in Nicaragua, genocide in Bosnia and Communism in Cuba...
Students and faculty say they have turned away from the Father of Communism...
...Communism became an important issue in everything, including student pranks. In his history The Harvard Century, author Richard N. Smith recalls one time during the 1950s when The Crimson pulled a joke on the Lampoon...
...providing his personal (if unsurprising) views on abortion, Marxism, competing religions and bad things happening to good people. "What he does," Ostling says, "is take on some of the great existential issues of modern life with an extremely personal, direct piece of evangelism." One tidbit: Did God mastermind communism's fall? The Pope says Russia's 1917 peas
Before the collapse of communism, all Russian museums got government support, meager though it was by Western standards; but now, laments Piotrovsky, "even the Hermitage is getting much less than it was getting before." The financial crunch has revived talk of selling off items from the collection, as the Hermitage did in the 1920s; but that, the director points out, would be "a disaster -- you have only to begin, and you will finish and the museum has nothing...