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...This was hardly the worst fate for an artist of the time, of course. During the Cultural Revolution academies were shut and aspiring artists were sent to the countryside while lesser talents, with better party credentials, were given high-profile assignments. Established painters often saw their work destroyed or were themselves subjected to "struggle sessions" of abuse and public humiliation...
...long made clear, what Mohammed is in a hurry to achieve is "martyrdom" by execution. A confession may have seemed a way to ensure that fate quickly before President Bush leaves office. In a curious way, an execution could be seen as a victory for both Bush and Mohammed. But with Barack Obama hoping to make good on his promise to close Gitmo, some of the camp's more than 225 prisoners can expect to be released. The rest, including Mohammed, would face trial in more conventional U.S. courts...
...time Yitzhak Rabin arrived at the White House in 1993 to negotiate the Oslo accords, smoking was banned, and he found himself shooed into the cold outdoors for smoke breaks--a fate Obama risks as well. The person who imposed that ban--former First Lady Hillary Clinton--is his nominee for Secretary of State...
...threatening to take over the Solidarity movement and Moscow watching closely, he had no choice but to order the crackdown. Soviet troops put down a popular rebellion in Hungary in 1956 and destroyed a reformist Czech regime in 1968. Jaruzelski was acutely aware that Poland could suffer a similar fate. Martial law was a "dramatically difficult decision," but it "saved Poland from a looming catastrophe," he told the court...
...Well, to put it honestly and rather unflatteringly, I am one of those people who could really use a drink now and then to smooth out the sharp edges. Always self-conscious and tongue-tied at critical social moments, I imagine that a martini might mitigate my wallflower fate, or at least give me something to do with one of my hands. In addition, I will never have a convenient excuse for questionable judgment. These little advantages that the acetaldehyde dehydrogenase-endowed take for granted are to me like warm rays of social salvation, without which I have become etiolated...