Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aberration on the road to a more benevolent Communism envisioned by Lenin. The historian has re-examined the totalitarian system created by Lenin and now suspects that Stalinism sprang from Leninism, as many American Sovietologists have concluded. Though Medvedev never fully confronts this issue, he emphatically makes one crucial point: when Lenin banned all opposition groups and factions in 1921, the ensuing one-party dictatorship was "a very important condition for Stalin's usurpation of power." Addressing the readers he ultimately hopes to reach, the Soviet people, he warns that "if socialism is not combined with democracy, it can become...
Medvedev's assertions point straight to Gorbachev's fundamental problem: how to realize the "democratization" he has proclaimed within the totalitarian institutions of the one-party Soviet state. Unfortunately, it is not in the power of even so perspicacious a historian as Medvedev to resolve that fateful dilemma. Perhaps that is why he has become, at 63, a fledgling parliamentarian...
...Washington politicians strictly followed the U.S. Military Academy's hallowed honor code, the great ethics war in the nation's capital would be over, and all the scoundrels would be gone. "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," the West Point creed commands. But while Congress and the Administration struggle to clean up their act, the fortress on the Hudson seems set to lower its ethical guns ever so slightly...
...acts by other cadets." The aim is still to condemn the foul deed, but now also to keep a more open mind toward the individual who committed it. This would give the cadet honor boards greater leeway in deciding punishment and thus enable an offender to remain at the Point with a chance to prove himself. Although the academy superintendent has long had less dire options, expulsion has been the usual fate...
...aired with a voice-over implying that the students at the table had been feasting when they were supposed to be fasting. Decipherable dates on the clip showed, however, that the dinner actually took place more than a week after their hunger strike ended. But the Chinese got the point: nothing is secret...