Word: communisms
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...beginning, as they say, religion in America was a decidedly nonpartisan affair. Presidents of all political stripes sprinkled their speeches with references to the Almighty. Religious Americans led political movements to battle communism and poverty, to promote temperance and civil rights. If anything, the contours of the religious landscape favored Democrats: their voters were evangelical Southerners and ethnic Catholics, while Republicans appealed to Northeasterners who were more private about their faith...
...campus full of students identified by the state who are there because of their skill and potential in a variety of sports, from gymnastics to Taekwando. But what was taking place on the fourth floor of a steaming hot gym on campus last month had nothing to do with Communism. Sixty one players, the vast majority from China, played spirited full court games and ran drills for three days, all under the watchful eye of current and former NBA players and coaches...
George W. Bush's visit to Europe this week has focused on the countries that once fell under the veil of communism and that have also, not coincidentally, proved important allies in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush's brief visit to Poland on Friday was his third as President...
Kapuscinski labored for years on a third volume, about Uganda's Idi Amin, but apparently could not find words for his excesses. When the Soviet Union foundered in the late 1980s, he abandoned Amin and headed for Moscow. The result, Imperium, is a perceptive travelogue-memoir of living under communism and watching it collapse. Another Day of Life is a harrowing account of the 1970s Angolan civil war; The Shadow of the Sun contains the best of the author's Africa reporting; and The Soccer War recounts, among other idiocies, the lethal, football-inflamed 1969 spat between Honduras...
...GRZEBSKI, a Polish man who recently emerged from a 19-year coma covering a span of time during which communism fell and the Polish economy was modernized