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Today it is difficult to imagine the bones, the icy graves, the miseries and horrors that took place in Stalin's Magadan. Whatever it was in 1937, Magadan in 1987 is a very different place. The region's 552,000 residents are better housed, better fed, better clothed and better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Gateway to the Gulag | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

As for acquiring graves, villas, and coastal retreats, Harvard does not actively seek such facilities due to the problems of management and finance, according to Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. He says he does not foresee any new acquisitions of this type in the near future.

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

Jungle vines long ago began to reclaim the railway leading to the famous bridge on the River Kwai that the Japanese brutally built with Allied POWs and Asian laborers during World War II. Today the Burma-to-Thailand railway, whose bridge inspired a book and movie, is patronized mostly by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Carousels on The River Kwai | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Already published is Chingiz Aitmatov's The Executioner's Scaffold, which removed the taboo from the subject of drug addiction in our country. Poet Andrei Voznesensky published his powerful The Ditch, a piece about thieves who robbed the graves of Nazi victims. Mikhail Shatrov's antidictatorship play Dictatorship of Conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's View of Glasnost | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

It is a picture first and foremost, a series of pictures that lodge in the mind with other indelible images of war. The prop wash from a landing helicopter blows the tarpaulins off three bodies, their shrouds torn off, their makeshift graves defiled. In the village, after the slaughter, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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