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...shaped Russia's destiny down to this time. Both sausage and freedom were imported into Russia rather than attained indigenously. That is why we have neither sausage nor freedom now. A citizenry that failed to cope with freedom is not yet a civil society. As the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov put it, A talking creature is not necessarily a human being...
...thing to boo and hiss, as many legislators did, when Palestinian Authority Chairman YASSER ARAFAT acceded to demands by reform-minded members of the Legislative Council and presented a so-called new Cabinet last week. But Minister HANAN MIKHAIL-ASHRAWI, prominent spokeswoman for the Palestinian cause, made her protest sting by loudly quitting the Cabinet. Disgusted at Arafat's failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio...
...thing to boo and hiss, as many legislators did, when Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat acceded to demands by reform-minded members of the Legislative Council and presented a so-called new Cabinet last week. But Minister Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, prominent spokeswoman for the Palestinian cause, made her protest sting by loudly quitting the Cabinet. Disgusted at Arafat?s failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio...
...Rome. Upon his election as Pope, John Paul II quickly named the omnicompetent prelate the Vatican's chief diplomat, a post he filled with skill and judgment from 1979 to 1990. In 1989, in perhaps his most dramatic moment, Casaroli helped broker the meeting between the Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov dances Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove...