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Russia, under Stalin's direction, was Hitler's nemesis in World War II. But while that war freed most of Germany from despotism, the shackles of Stalinism stayed in place in the Soviet Union for another 40 years. Russia is still trying to find its way toward democracy. Bullock maintains that only a confluence of violent upheavals and unusual leaders can produce a Hitler or a Stalin, and "such occasions are not common." But it has happened within living memory, and Bullock's monumental history reminds us how unwise it would be to conclude it cannot happen again...
...times change. First we freed the slaves (good move), then we gave women the vote (jury still out), and now we seem to be saying gays are O.K. too. A recent FORTUNE cover story was titled "Gay in Corporate America -- What It's Like, and How Business Attitudes Are Changing." The Episcopal Church has seriously considered sanctioning gay marriages. And as if that weren't enough, Harvard Business School (Harvard Business School!) now has a gay hot line...
...REMEMBER the headlines that accompanied Terry A. Anderson out of Lebanon in December. The last American hostage in the Middle East had been freed. An era of kidnappings, death threats and black-and-white prison photos had come to a close...
...favorite image of Puryear's. For Beckwourth, 1980, presents a kind of solid wooden hogan with an ovoid top plastered in cracked mud, recalling both the primitive hut and the origins of the pendentive dome. (Jim Beckwourth is a figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...
...group of TV executives from Eastern Europe confessed at a CNN conference last month that the newly freed TV channels in their countries have left viewers bored. The problem: too much news and not enough entertainment. Just another case where the former Soviet empire has a lot of catching up to do & with the West. In the jaded U.S., viewers are bored with entertainment and can't seem to get enough news...