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Ironically, it was the success of his efforts to democratize the political order that ultimately pushed Gorbachev hardest. Six years, ago Paul Goble, a leading expert on Soviet nationalities and now a State Department adviser, wrote that Gorbachev would eventually discover he could make liberalism work in Russia, but that...
The air raid siren sounds even louder, it seems, than it had yesterday morning. People are shouting "Tilim, tilim (missiles, missiles)!!" in the hallways. Army radio is on instantly. The routine is the same. Masks and down to the sealed room. I am about out the door headed down to...
Americans mostly wanted to change the channel. They may have been depressed and a little stunned to discover that they could not.
Van Dyck loved the stuff of the world -- the shimmer and exact texture of fabrics (he was, after all, the son of a silk merchant in Antwerp), the brightness of flesh or the passing melancholy that settles on a face, the layering of vapor and light in the sky, the...
At the end of his last book on India, V.S. Naipaul wrote that the country's survival depended on seeing the past as dead "or the past will kill." In that volume, India: A Wounded Civilization, as well as in his earlier work on the subcontinent, An Area of Darkness...