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...considerably worse off than they had been under the red flag. No individual more memorably personified Russian antipathy to communism than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the writer who turned his horrific experiences inside Stalin's gulag into the defining novel of the Soviet era. And if Solzhenitsyn was a moral compass for Russian anti-communism, then his views on post-Soviet Russia offer pause for thought: "One might have imagined that things could not have got worse than the point to which Communism had brought us," Solzhenitsyn recently told the New Yorker. "It seemed that any effort at all would bring something...
...Click here to read our moral-compass guide to the science and ethics of cloning...
...book. Since it was published last year, Empire, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, has been translated into four languages, with six more on the way. It is selling briskly on Amazon.com and is impossible to find in Manhattan bookstores. For 413 pages of dense political philosophy--whose compass ranges from body piercing to Machiavelli--that's impressive...
...kids who gather on sunny afternoons on a concrete plaza at the corner of hip boulevards Meiji and Omotesando seem to be taking their cultural cues from myriad psychedelic compass points: Ibiza, Goa, San Francisco. Hopping trains into the city from all over Japan, these teens and twentysomethings flock for the express purpose of flaunting some of the wackiest Mad Hatter outfits east of Fillmore West. They get gussied up in sidewalk dragging, patchwork skirts under military jackets, or blood red, cropped kimonos paired with platforms and body piercings. The kids tote tom-toms, shopping bags, vinyl purses shaped like...
...world of disoriented businessmen trying to find their way around Prague, Hong Kong and Düsseldorf all in the same week. It's likely they, not the renegades who are trying to paddle a dinghy across the Atlantic, are the ones most likely to fall for the Nomade compass watch Hermès introduced at the Basel watch fair last month. A perfect target might include the American editor of a European business magazine who, frustrated with the lack of a New York-style grid system for streets in London, has taken to carrying a compass to find...