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...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
...prime minister of the Russian Federation, Ivan Silaev, said Monday that Russia would continue to push for private ownership of land. Boris N. Yeltsin, the Russian Federation president, has warned that if the national legislature does not adopt Shatalin's 500-day plan, Russia will move ahead with the reforms...
Screenplay by Chuck Pfarrer, Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Daniel Goldin and Joshua Goldin...
...famed $11.6 billion brewing and distilling group and thus helping the company win its successful $5.23 billion takeover battle for Distillers, the Scottish liquor maker. Investigators first became aware of the Guinness scheme, described as one of the biggest financial scandals in British history, when U.S. inside-trader Ivan Boesky disclosed some of the details...
...throat cancer. In Beijing, one-third of the city's wells have gone dry, and the water table drops by as much as 2 meters (2.2 yards) a year. In the Western U.S., four years of drought have left municipalities and agricultural interests tussling over diminishing water stocks. Says Ivan Restrepo, head of the Center for Ecodevelopment in Mexico, where as many as 30 million people do not have safe drinking water: "We've been enduring a crisis for several years now, but it is in this decade that it will explode...