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...appalled by the insensitivity Roger Rosenblatt showed in his commentary about the human need to write based on the revelation of the Russian submariner's last message to his wife [ESSAY, Nov. 6]. The situation aboard the Kursk should not be trivialized by relating it to existential musings on the subject of why people write. Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov wrote to tell a truth we all suspected: the crew of the Kursk did not die instantly, as Russian authorities claimed. How could Rosenblatt fail to have addressed the issue that Russia does not value life any more today than...
...Among the exceptional acts are the Kabanov, Russian aerial acrobats who perform flips and drops from a swaying platform. Breaking with the circus convention of aerial acts defying gravity, the Kabanov embrace it, turning somersaults as they fall from a high moving perch, always landing safely on the tent floor...
...people. In this country you must understand that you're gonna run into an Italian, you're gonna run into a black, you're gonna run into a Jew. In Germany, maybe, it's all German people. You go to Russia there's no blacks, it's all Russian people. But it's not like that in America. I'm saying that because I don't want blacks to think they have to deal with themselves in order to be successful. That is the first step because once you deal with yourself then you know how to deal with everyone...
...particular, Soros blamed the IMF for the Russian financial crisis of 1999, for holding the nascent capitalist government there to expectations it could not have...
...missile-defense system and how to deal with North Korea's attempts to end its international isolation to whether to sell Taiwan sophisticated weapons systems and how to deal with Pakistan's precarious nuclear-armed military junta. And even some of the foreign policy standards, such as responding to Russian arms control proposals and China's reluctance to implement trade agreements...