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...President pounding over the hills on horseback, his hounds in full cry after a scraggly fox. Environmentalists would have jumped out at him from behind every hedge, waving placards. A "save the foxes" society would have been organized. Columnist Ellen Goodman would have rushed to detail the plight of the ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-treated foxes of Fairfax County. Newsmagazines might have noted that photographs of Washington mounting his horse revealed he had wide hips. The temptation would have been too much: "President Washington, displaying a broad beam and a narrow mind, last week chased...
...Bulgarian security service to stage just such an operation in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981? The Kremlin certainly had a motive for wanting Pope John Paul II out of the way. Since his election in 1978, the Pontiff has shown particular concern for the plight of Communist bloc Catholics, and also set about improving ties with Eastern Orthodox churches in the region. Moscow has long been suspicious of any such religious activity, fearing that it might stir up nationalist sentiments, especially in the Baltic republics and the Western Ukraine. But what must have irked the Kremlin leadership...
Although the book consists of personal remembrances of Sakharov, it contains as well a few pieces of fiction that relate more or less explicitly to his plight or to the state of human rights in Russia. Though enjoyable to read, these seem not to fit into the book. Much more interesting are a few other dissidents' essays on subjects besides Sakharov, such as a piece by geophysicist Grigorii Podyapolsky, entitled "My Conversation with the Director of the Institute for Geophysics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. "This is a rough transcript of Podyapolsky's interrogation by his superior...
...Commencement gatherings in 2008 and 2033, another dean will find himself in a similar plight. Because of a 1979 curriculum overhaul that made Harvard's the only five-year dental program in the country, no one will graduate from the University's dental school this June...
With unemployment hovering at 50% of the industry's 450,000-strong labor force, and industrywide production sputtering along at a mere 29% of capacity, the plight of the nation's steelmakers is truly ghastly. During 1982, losses for the industry as a whole reached a record $2.5 billion, and though no major steel producer currently faces imminent bankruptcy, some analysts give the weakest of them, including such venerable giants as National Steel (1981 sales: $4.0 billion), and Republic Steel (1981 sales: $4.3 billion) as few as six to eight calendar quarters before they run out of money...