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After a short stay in St. Petersburg, Ledyard set off across Siberia in a kibitka, a coach drawn by three horses. But he never received permission to travel through the country from Catherine the Great, and the empress signed an order for his arrest. She feared that Ledyard was really trying to spy on the Russian fur trade, and perhaps pass the information along to the British. Ledyard was rudely escorted out of Russia and his goal of circumambulating the world ended in disappointment...
...eldest son, Sean, has joined the 40 or so prisoners on his block in the Maze who are on "dirty protest" - living naked rather than wearing a prison uniform, and smearing their excrement on their cell walls. Dunn has returned to Ulster as a prison officer in the Maze, drawn by good money and hopes of finally settling down with his Protestant girlfriend. The two characters never meet, but their parallel lives converge when the antagonism within the Maze, and the political stakes outside, start to rise. The political and religious jangle of Belfast in 1979 is the backdrop...
After a short stay in St. Petersburg, Ledyard set off across Siberia in a kibitka, a coach drawn by three horses. But he never received permission to travel through the country from Catherine the Great, and the empress signed an order for his arrest. She feared that Ledyard was really trying to spy on the Russian fur trade, and perhaps pass the information along to the British. Ledyard was rudely escorted out of Russia and his goal of circumambulating the world ended in disappointment...
...past two weeks, Rath’s advertising campaign in South Africa has drawn additional international flak from the United Nations Children’s Fund and the joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS...
...that they've drawn national attention, would the students support a Capital Hill deal to avert the expected vote? No. "Any sort of compromise that undermines the filibuster isn't really a compromise," says Jason Vagliano, a graduating Princeton senior and a registered Independent. "It's abolishing a 200-year-old protection of the minority voice in Congress...