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Shura, 37, a bearded artist in a faded sheepskin coat, a fur hat tipped to one side of his head. He beckoned toward a darkened doorway before speaking: "Lenin was the only one who thought about us; all the leaders who followed him were ambitious. That is why Brezhnev let us live our own lives; he lived a pretty nice one himself, eh? I have a friend who knows people in the Central Committee. He says that Gorbachev knows what he is about, that he is with it. Say, let's sneak off for a drink. Why huddle here discussing...
...microscopic control maintained at the top of that pyramid is almost beyond Western comprehension. In 1983, for example, a published summary of one Politburo meeting revealed that, among other things, the members of the Soviet Union's supreme decision-making body had considered whether to lower the price of fur collars on winter overcoats. They decided that the Council of Ministers should take swift action. A few days later, a decree cut the prices of the collars...
Moore attempts to warm this chilly view with a sense of tragedy. His Father Laforgue is a composite of the passionate and courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region. Laforgue's assignment is to relieve a remote mission at Ihonatiria on the shores of Lake Huron. He and a young French assistant named Daniel must travel by canoe in the company of an Algonquin band that is the birchbark equivalent of a motorcycle gang...
Under the supervision of Scott County Attorney Kathleen Morris, the number of arrests for alleged child sexual abuse grew. Fear spread through the once tranquil community. Children related detailed incidents of sodomy, incest and bestiality. One young girl reported being forced to eat a cat and a pet gerbil, "fur and all." A ten-year-old boy said he was kidnaped and driven to a party where whip-wielding women in see-through clothes forced him into sexual acts with other children and adults that were photographed...
...million extravaganza that launched Reagan's first term. The four-day celebration was not exactly subdued; not with eight black- tie balls, two galas, a huge fireworks display and a parade. But the theme of the Inaugural was "We the People," and even if many in attendance wore fur coats and rode around in limousines (more than 1,000 cars were hired for the long weekend), the affair was supposed to have a distinctly populist flavor...