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Zosimova recalls in particular the New Year's Eve of 1942 in the midst of the bitterly cold first winter of the siege -- the winter that starvation set in and an estimated 1.5 million Leningraders began to die. "We were allowed to go into the city," she says. "I took two friends from the place where we were digging and went to my uncle's apartment." There was no food, but they begged a handful of flour from a friend who worked in a bakery. Then they boiled water, added salt and mustard, and made the flour into small dumplings...
...retired doctor in Nizhni Novgorod who served as a combat surgeon through the worst of the war. One of her duties was to inspect trainloads of newly arrived wounded. She decided which of them should be treated and which were so badly off that they must be left to die. "I was known," she says, "for my precision...
...polling, hundreds were dying in clashes between Mandela's African National Congress and its Zulu rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party. On election eve, bombs set by white extremists shook Johannesburg. Civil war seemed all too possible. Yet one year later, blacks and whites feel released from a 350-year-old burden. "I am excited, relieved," says Phambili Gama, a black engineer in Johannesburg. "Psychologically we feel liberated, even if many economic changes are still to be realized." Beverley Dalton, a white Cape Town public relations executive, puts it more directly: "My world is blacker-and better. The tension has gone...
...should not hail Robert McNamara as a hero for denouncing the Vietnam War as a mistake. More than 58,000 Americans died there and they did not die for nothing. While the traitorous and cowardly peace protesters, McNamara's "honorable Americans," might have believed otherwise, America intervened to preserve the freedom and independence of South Vietnam and to stop Communist aggression--noble and just aims that we should not ignore. Further, North Vietnam received substantial support from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, support that further justified American intervention...
...die-hard fan that I once was, why do I keep coming back to Fenway Park in early (or, in this year's case, late) April? The answer, which developed slowly during the game, parallels my earlier response--shared memory...