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WHEN GENNADI ZYUGANOV, LEADER of Russia's Communist Party, steps onto the podium in a factory auditorium south of Moscow and poses under the red banners and hammer-and-sickle emblems, he transports his audience back to the time before Mikhail Gorbachev began his reforms, a sclerotic period of repression and decline now viewed by many as an era of stability. The crowd loves it. The hall rocks with applause as Zyuganov denounces the upheavals that have destroyed the old-style Soviet system, and he blasts the West for "forcing ideas, concepts and changes on our country that will never...
...Literature and Arts A class, the Myth of America. Many of them sleep or chat with their friends during his lectures, or rustle their papers and books loudly as they leave fifteen minutes early. Santa will wire every seat in Science Center B to an eject switch at the podium. Then Professor Bercovitch can blast those who do not wish to pay attention clear out to Loker Commons...
...stepped up to the microphone, the 83-year-old Terkel likened his podium to a pulpit and his audience to a "captive congregation," and, at the end of his speech, to widespread laughter, proposed passing a collection plate...
Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Alliance president William D. Zerhouni '97-'98 said Forbes's style was more reminiscent of the corporate boardroom than the political podium...
...assassination has dealt a terrible, humiliating blow to Shin Bet, the internal-security service supposed to be the best in the world. The head of Shin Bet, known only by his Hebrew initial "Kaf," acknowledged a complete security breakdown as Rabin descended from the podium at the end of the peace rally. Though close to 20 protective agents were present, Rabin was not cocooned within a ring of bodyguards facing in and out, nor was his back adequately shielded. No one had prevented Amir from hanging around the parking area where Rabin's car waited. Although Shin Bet knew Rabin...