Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seven years ago Romania rose into anger to irreversibly turn a dark page of its history. Just three days before the Christmas of 1989, during the violent days of the Romanian Revolution, a taste of freedom filled the heart of the people. It revived memories in the elderly who experienced...
An important factor that contributed to the degradation of the value of volunteering was the forced involvement of every individual in the communist party. Starting from the age of four, children automatically became part of the Communist political structures under the organization "Falcons of the Fatherland." I was a Falcon...
Although police inspector Javert (Todd Alan Johnson) is hot on his trail, Valjean stays with the dying Fantine in the hospital and decides to adopt her child as his own, rescuing the young Cosette (Danielle Raniere) from the clutches of the evil, greedy Thenardiers (J.P. Dougherty and Tregoeny Sheperd). Ten...
Reina Aguero fixes electrical wires in Fidel Castro's Cuba, while living with the "remnants of a bird's nest" in the chandelier of her decaying house; Constancia Aguero Cruz basks in affluent loneliness in Key Biscayne, Fla., where Cuban songs play "slow as regret, on the afternoon radio." Constancia...
DIED. PENG ZHEN, 95, oldest of China's "Eight Immortals" whose longevity was equaled only by his authoritarian influence; in Beijing. Purged from his position as Beijing's mayor during the Cultural Revolution, he returned in 1978 as head of parliament under Deng Xiaoping. Peng later supported hard-line policies...