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...lesson is clear," Christopher said. "If we lead, we can sustain the momentum that defeated communism, freed us from the danger of nuclear war and unfurled freedom's flag around the world...
...still unclear. "Moscow now says there were 110 hostages, but journalists who worked in the area estimated their number at 170," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Yeltsin said Thursday night that 82 hostages had been set free. The rest presumably were killed during the Russian attack. None of the freed hostages confirmed a single case of fellow hostages being executed by the rebels, as the Russian government had claimed...
First, some clarification is in order. Certain of my ancestors were in chattel slavery, and thus were victims of that southern culture which took its institutional form in the Confederacy. My ancestors were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and the efforts of the Union Army, and we have never forgotten that. My grandmother was born in 1863, the year of the Emancipation, in Richmond, Virginia: when she came north to join her northern relative who had long been free she always referred to the Civil War as the "War of the Rebellion;" and she bore no sentimental...
Readers of Rushdie's earlier novels will recognize the Moor's unusual affliction as a typical ambushing of the real by the preposterous. In his speeded-up growth, which makes him bigger than everyone else his age--"I was a skyscraper freed of all legal restraints, a one-man population explosion, a megalopolis"--the Moor can stand as an embodiment of India itself. The link is underscored by the pulls and tugs on his loyalties, the presumptive European strain in his ancestry and the transreligion union between his Christian mother and Jewish father: "I, however, was raised neither as Catholic...
PERVOMAYSKAYA, DAGESTAN: Russian forces unleashed waves of artillery, rockets and helicopter fire after reports that Chechen rebels had shot some of roughly 100 local hostages they have held for six days. The attacks apparently have failed to dislodge many of the rebel fighters. Fewer than 10 hostages were freed and there was no clear information on whether others were slaughtered in the crossfire. "It looks like about half the village is destroyed," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The Russian military spokesman told journalists that we should not have an impression that this artillery barrage was indiscriminate. But the Russian army...