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Although we appreciate this new spirit of glasnost emerging from Mass Hall, it seems that Shattuck's letter, to borrow a phrase, may rest on a misunderstanding about the University's position...
...Alexandra had from adolescence to the last hours of their lives kept diaries. The intimate story of their marriage, its intense emotional pitch and devastating political consequences, is told largely in their own voices. The regime that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror. Glasnost gave Radzinsky access to information that had long been locked away. Radzinsky discovered a folder headed "File on the Family of Former Tsar Nicholas the Second 1918-1919." The file included the written statement of Yakov Yurovsky, a longtime revolutionary who had commanded the execution squad, in which...
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Eager to display an openness surpassing Gorbachev's glasnost, Yeltsin surmised that a few Americans missing in action in Vietnam and earlier wars might still be somewhere on former Soviet territory. Some members of Congress suggested holding up the aid until they could investigate, but Yeltsin hurried to reassure them. "Even if one American has been detained in my country and can still be found," he promised, "I will find him." A joint Russian-U.S. commission has been set up to check on all missing military personnel on both sides...
This is by no means an exhaustive list. Admissions policies unduly favorable to legacies and athletes, FAS tenuring, Harvard police records, the notorious search committees--all could stand a little glasnost...