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...millennium was as fanatical as that of their religious counterparts -- and far more destructive. Soviet, Cambodian, Korean, Chinese communists relentlessly drove their people to extremes of privation and repression in order to hasten the arrival of full-fledged "communism," the millennium as foretold by that 19th century prophet Karl Marx...
...attention. Even on the eve of last week's Congress, the presidential team gave fifty-fifty odds that a compromise could be reached. They were hopelessly optimistic. congressional Deputies who filed into the hall were so sour about reform that they refused even to consider a motion to remove Karl Marx's rallying cry, "Workers of the World, Unite," from the Russian Federation's national emblem. In the face of such hostility, Yeltsin's conciliatory appeal for "honest and equal cooperation" went unheard. Deputies yawned and chatted as the President's supporters pleaded for strong powers to "guarantee" reforms. When...
Using logic which would make Karl Marx proud, the staff effectively urges socialistic paternalism as the governing principle of the economy of Harvard Square...
...consequences for cultural integrity and social peace have not been complex. The largest ethnic group -- nearly one-quarter of the U.S. population -- turns out to be one of the least visible, a template of assimilation. "I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans," wrote the critic Karl Shapiro, "though they certainly make the worst Germans." German Americans assimilated partly because of two world wars with the old country, but also because the Germans who came here -- Catholics and Protestants, peasants and city dwellers -- were so diverse. It takes cohesion to stand apart: Germans in America...
...hold on power is based on his brutality, his control of key military units and broadcast media, and his elite security forces. But there is also a personal element: his knack for co-opting former enemies is little short of amazing. Nguza Karl-i-Bond, who published an account of brutal tortures inflicted on him by Mobutu's minions, later proceeded to serve him twice as Prime Minister. As Mobutu shifts appointees in and out of office, sometimes on a monthly basis, erstwhile opponents have shown a willingness to return to his orbit, occasionally banking tidy sums in the process...