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...which millions died to defend the Motherland against Nazism. Then you survived Stalin, watched the utopian fantasies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat go into sclerosis in the 1960s and '70s, and saw the imperium collapse in the '80s. Today the yellow arches of McDonald's shed their plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism rules instead of socialist virtue. You know the Nazis inflicted incalculable damage on your nation, with the intent to obliterate all traces of "Slavic culture" from the earth. Why, in this time of collapsed dreams and national humiliation, should you listen to Germans preaching about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPOILS OF WAR | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...Yeees, I've been around since Microsoft was just a gleam in Bill Gates's eye. But theengs have changed around here. Those Deesney guys look more sleeck than Salomon, and they have better beenefits, too. I heard the CIA has a booth, but nobody can find yet. But they're here alright--I saw two people deesappear into that wall over there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRESSED TO IMPRESS II | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

Paleontologist Gen Suwa was walking across the pebble-covered desert of north- central Ethiopia under the searing midday sun, peering carefully around him for ancient bones. Then he saw it: the telltale gleam of a fossil tooth partially exposed on the rocky ground. "I knew immediately that it was a hominid tooth," says the University of Tokyo scientist, "and one of the oldest ever found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Less Missing Link | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...refugees agree that much of the most vicious killing was done not by the army but by Hutu death squads, called the interahamwe ("those who attack together"). These are young men in street clothes, armed with anything from a screwdriver to an Uzi to a machete, a dull gleam in their eyes and a whistle around their neck. If one spotted a Tutsi family emerging from hiding and trying to flee, he blew his whistle, and his comrades sealed off any escape. "If you look in their eyes," says Daniel Bellamy of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why? the Killing Fields of Rwanda | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...anymore. At 2:30 in the morning, we realized that we had inexplicably left two pages totally blank.... and Pat, our fearless production supervisor was starting to get restless. "I'm not staying here for you two clowns," he said. Erica just laughed, but I could tell by the gleam in his eye that he was not joking, and Pat is not the sort of person to fuck with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It was a dark and stormy night... | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

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