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Russia is not a land accustomed to elections--to say nothing of electoral surprises. But last week the country got a big one. Within an hour of the polls' closing in Russian parliamentary elections Sunday night, a new and fairly mysterious party called Unity took the lead and held it...
DIED. TONY BRYANT, 60, Black Panther turned anti-communist who founded a short-lived, conservative black magazine after spending 11 years in a Cuban prison for hijacking a plane to Havana; of leukemia; in Miami. His 1984 book, Hijack, recounted his prison ordeal.
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms," he said. He proceeded to list them: freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. One of the great themes of this century was the progress made toward each of them.
9. He routed British forces, expelled the Greeks and founded a republic here, secularizing and modernizing the nation and even changing its alphabet.
It all began with Pez and a man named Pierre Omidyar, now 32. In the summer of 1995 Omidyar's fiance (now wife) Pam, who collected Pez dispensers, was bemoaning how hard it was to find other people to trade with in the San Francisco Bay Area. Omidyar was already...