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...result, many felt compelled to serve the Germans in order to survive. Solzhenitsyn is careful to distinguish between degrees of collaboration. Some "scum" joined the Nazi polizei. Ukrainians, Latvians and other national groups, deeply embittered by Soviet persecution, joined Waffen SS divisions. The so-called "Russian Army of Liberation"* held the pitiful belief that a German victory would enable them to bring democracy to Russia. Other P.O.W.s escaped the Nazis to fight with the Soviet partisans or try to rejoin the Red Army. Whether scum or hero, all received the same sentence when they returned home: ten years...
...have psychological importance to the people and politicians of both countries. Harvard's Doty explains: "To the extent that numbers influence worldwide opinion, then numbers become a realistic basis for argument, even though they do not have much to do with the worldwide arms situation. It is important to distinguish between military reality on the one plane and political perception...
...reaching that conclusion, Coase challenged two assumptions that, he says, have created the distinction in public policy: 1) that consumers are able to distinguish good ideas from bad on their own, though they need help in choosing among competing goods; and 2) that publishers and broadcasters deserve laissez-faire treatment while other entrepreneurs do not. He sees journalists as salesmen of products. Hence there is no reason to believe that "producers who are found to be so unscrupulous in their behavior in other markets can be trusted to act in the public interest whether they publish or work...
...this dirty tricks' point in time, distinguish the incorruptible and always operative Ralph Nader as TIME'S Man of the Year? Would it not be a priceless gift from TIME to begin the new year with an image of decency before...
...crucial to distinguish between free cultural exchange and its perversion, the abandonment of national culture spurred by Western-style urbanization and elitist education. Ho Chi Minh, for example, was educated in France, but his education broadened his understanding of his own culture. In essays such as "The Glories of French Civilization," Ho recognized the brutal effect French dominance had on his own people...