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...displays a leisurely, literary sensibility, as if words on a page could still hold their own among sound bites and photo ops. Worst of all, the book's subject -- the lives of ordinary Czechoslovak citizens under the unpredictable pressures of Soviet occupation -- is already, given the torrential crush of current events, an outdated story. The tanks are long gone, and a playwright serves as the elected President of Czechoslovakia. Now what...
...crush a people...
...other cheers too profane to print, the Crimson (11-6 Overall, 6-0 Ivy) stormed back from a 16-point deficit with 10 minutes remaining in the game to tie the contest, 77-77, at the end of regulation. Harvard then poured in a 24-point overtime effort to crush the Bears (14-5, 5-2), 101-86, and silence the Brown faithfuls...
With its lineup split between the Jumbos, the nation's 13th-ranked team, and the Engineers, the Crimson men's squash team (8-0 overall, 4-0 Ivy) still managed to crush both its local foes, 9-0. In fact, Harvard did not lose a single game all afternoon, notching a shutout tally...
...Lithuania, or can plausibly deny a direct role, is irrelevant. He was responsible. It is his policy to refuse demands for sovereignty and independence that have arisen in non-Russian regions and Russia itself. It has been his practice, when he feels it necessary, to use military force to crush them. Besides, if Gorbachev was not responsible, does that mean he has lost control to the conservatives in the army and the KGB and is being forced to front for their demands for order? U.S. analysts doubt that. "Gorbachev is a hostage to his own policy," says Robert Legvold, director...