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Stalin--tyrant and village primitive--yammered all through the double feature, talking down the stars onscreen. At about 2 a.m. he would propose, as if spontaneously, "Let's go and get something to eat." No one said no. Everyone would ride 10 miles to Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo and begin another of the booze-fogged, terror-soaked marathon predawn dinners that the Minister of Cultural Terror, Yury Zhdanov, had convinced Stalin were the equivalent of the symposia of the ancient Greeks. "These vomit-flecked routs," the British biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore observes in Stalin: The Court...
...tribunal rejected the man's claim; he is now waiting in detention for a court appeal. "We hear about them all the time," says Ngareta Rossell, a Sydney-based refugee advocate who has extensive contacts within detention centers. "Many asylum seekers feel they have been taken for a big ride...
...long ride also contributes to the biggest obstacle in club expansion: time...
Thomas G. Beatty ’06 said he has been trying to ride since freshman year, but his classes and riding schedules always overlapped. “I’m getting closer,” he said, regarding his chances of saddling up this spring...
...that message gets back to Europe, it will help those like Buncha Intiapat, 30, a motorcycle-taxi driver in Patong. On Dec. 26 he watched the wall of water advance on the beach. Instinct told him to ride his bike quickly away to safety. Four of his friends died, and he watched children scrambling and screaming before they were swallowed by the waves. In the days after the tsunami, Buncha says, he had considered moving back home to the northeast of Thailand, as many of his friends did. But now, as each day brings the opening of a new business...