Word: gorbachevized
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...gently. Much as Einstein struggled toward the end of his life to fashion a Grand Unified Theory explaining the entire cosmos, Verhaeghen links Nazism, the Holocaust, the nuclear age and the fall of communism in a grand web of causality and suspense. Hitler, Himmler, Mengele, Speer, Heisenberg, Honnecker and Gorbachev strut and fret through hot war and cold. The action ricochets back and forth from the '30s to the '90s, from Potsdam to Los Alamos to Auschwitz to post-Wall Berlin, where neo-Nazis are plotting an apocalypse that could put new zip in Einstein's abandoned idea...
...visit to Harvard yesterday, former Soviet premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev defended the legitimacy of Russia’s Dec. 2 elections, called for sweeping multilateral action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and criticized U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold...
Today, it is Harvard’s pleasure to welcome to campus Mikhail Gorbachev, who courageously led the Soviet Union out of communism when very few believed it was possible. For his undisputed contribution to ending the Cold War, Gorbachev remains a source of hope and inspiration. Unfortunately, the transition to democracy that he initiated in Russia is far from complete. The parliamentary elections that took place on Sunday, which cemented the power of the autocratic Russian President Vladimir Puttin, were nothing but a tragic comedy. Putin’s party won the election?...
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During his visit, Gorbachev will attend a conference on the 20th anniversary of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed by Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan in 1987. —Staff writer David K. Hausman can be reached at dhausman@fas.harvard.edu...