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...NATIONALISTS. Many of the communist sympathizers are trying to broaden their appeal by adopting some of the nationalist and patriotic themes of the right wing. At last week's demonstration, symbols of Russian imperialism were almost as common a sight as the hammer and sickle. Viktor Alksnis, who led a faction of hard-liners in the old Soviet parliament, has teamed up with noncommunist nationalists in an umbrella movement called Nashi (Ours) that seeks to restore the U.S.S.R., whether in its previous form or as a new Russian empire. "Anyone who supports the union is ours," says Alksnis...
Want an easy two? Condakes can hammer the ball home as well as anyone in the Ivy League...
Like Isaiah, we yearn for the day when "[all people] will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles and when nation will not make war against nation." Mary T. Teichert '93 President Catholic Student Association Steering Committee
America does not stop at food and clothing: it's entertainment too. The blockbuster movies are all American -- Terminator 2, Home Alone, Pretty Woman -- and require buying tickets days in advance. Hours after the box offices | opened, all 56,000 seats for M.C. Hammer's concert at the Tokyo Dome were spoken for. Millions of dollars' worth of CDs -- from New Age to rap to jazz to blues -- are bought at stores like Tower Records. Don't want to buy? Listen to American music on J-Wave (81.3 FM), presented by English-speaking deejays with names like Jon and Carole...
...circumstances beyond its control, the most powerful sports machine in history cannot be part of the 1992 Olympics. No red hammer-and-sickle flags will fly at Albertville, and the national anthem heard at past victory ceremonies has, like the country itself, been overtaken by the second Russian revolution...