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...millions knew something was afoot even as they dressed for work one morning last week. The radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué ... Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided to start testing its nuclear weapons again. Just 49 hours later, a brilliant flash lit the bleak plains of Central Asia, and a mighty bang echoed for miles ... The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision...
...real reason Ex Machina is so addictive, however, is that its characters are likeable and multi-dimensional. Mitchell’s dreadlocked deputy mayor generates much of the political tension, arguing with Mitchell over school vouchers and gay marriage. Kremlin, Mitchell’s grizzled Russian mentor, strains their relationship by trying to get Mitchell out of politics and back on the jetpack. Even Mitchell’s mother appears for a few quirky-yet-tender moments, when the story flashes back to his childhood...
Through his controversial comments, including his recent statements on women in science, Summers has created a climate of fear and repression well befitting the “Kremlin on the Charles.” Several nameless professors spoke at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting of a “toxic atmosphere” in Cambridge. Professor of Sociology and Department Chair Mary C. Waters described tenured academics “held hostage to fear,” insisting that their dissenting e-mails be destroyed before being read by a University president powerless to fire them. Cruel punishments...
...World War II, Joseph Stalin's personal movie library expanded. His army liberated Joseph Goebbels' film collection. On movie nights in the old winter garden of the Great Kremlin Palace, Stalin and his gang (a revolving cast of Bolshevik thugs and survivors) would watch Charlie Chaplin or Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable. Stalin particularly liked gangster and cowboy films; sexual content offended...
...Dimmer Glimmer CHECHNYA Rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov's declaration of a unilateral truce earlier this month brought a ray of hope in the brutal 10-year war with Russia. Maskhadov said he wanted to start peace talks with the Kremlin and involve the international community in negotiating an end to the fighting. Thus far, Russian President Vladimir Putin has remained silent, sparking fears of fresh terrorist attacks when the truce expires...