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The voters want Lenin excised, nonetheless, in the well-established Soviet tradition of exorcising demons of the past by rewriting place names. The city of Lugansk has flip-flopped titles four times: Stalin made it Voroshilovgrad, after Marshal Kliment Voroshilov; Khrushchev restored the original name in his anti-Stalin campaign...
The tapes show that long before he was under siege by the Watergate investigators, he was under siege by his own demons. His re-election campaign belied its official slogan -- "Bring Us Together" -- by beginning with a pogrom. "I want there to be no holdovers left. The whole goddam bunch...
The University of Wisconsin, having run up a $1.9 million athletic department deficit, said it would cap funding for crew and purge the baseball, gymnastics and fencing teams. The main cause of the budget shortfall appears to be an erosion of football revenue, with average attendance dropping from 74,600...
The rewards of being topical carry with them the risks of overfamiliarity. That is the problem with the six case studies that make up the heart of Illiberal Education. D'Souza ably documents the prejudice against Asian Americans in the admission policies of Berkeley, the absurdities of recasting the introductory...
Journalists in Saudi Arabia have been griping about the pool system since before the war started. One fear was that military censors, who screen pool dispatches, would purge any material deemed unfavorable to the military. Despite a few incidents of tampering, that has not happened. But editors and reporters have...