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...tomorrow." Even Europe's idealists realized, writes Judt, that "you cannot build a better society on broken men." When he analyzes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe finally collapsed 16 years later, Judt argues against conventional wisdom: the credit belongs neither to Poland's Solidarity movement nor Ronald Reagan's big defense budgets, but to Mikhail Gorbachev as the true agent of change. The Soviet leader, says Judt, was cognizant of his empire's imploding economy and spooked by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. "If Eastern Europe's crowds and intellectuals and trade union leaders 'won the third world...
...question—what would happen if Ronald Reagan came back from the dead and tried to turn America into a conservative Muslim paradise—is about to be answered. Robert P. Young ’06 is finishing up “Reagan Returns,” a film that shows a reanimated Ronald Reagan attempting to conquer the United States. The film, which is unrelated to Young’s VES coursework, has been his pet project since last year. When an evil Secret Service Agent, played by Nathan D. Turner ’05, reanimates Reagan...
...classical music. He came to Washington in 1957 to cover the second Administration of Dwight Eisenhower for LIFE, switched to TIME to cover J.F.K. and reported on every President since then. He went to Dallas with J.F.K., to China with Nixon, to Moscow's Red Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could to his hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, where his entry-level job in journalism was sweeping the floor at his family's beloved newspaper, the Adair County Free Press (still running strong, by the way, with brother Edwin as publisher...
...Ronald Reagan: Why the Criticisms Don't Stick...
...Nancy Reagan Statement...