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...makes Currier the one truly diverse house on campus. We have everyone from preppies to hippie wannabes, from rowers to thespians, from Crimson writers to Indy posers. Maybe they wouldn't even know each other if the housing computer had not sentenced them all to Harvard's version of Siberia. But being Curriered is a bonding experience that can transcend the most parochial interests of Harvard students. It makes Currier by far the most spirited house on campus...
...State, Treasury and Defense, as well as the Agency for International Development, is identifying the neediest areas and the available resources of food and transport. The plan, whose details are still secret, is to send supplies directly to the areas thought to be the hardest hit, including cities in Siberia and the Urals, as well as Moscow and Leningrad...
...republics and even single cities are proclaiming themselves sovereign. Within the Russian federation, the Chuvash, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar, Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...
Instead, burdened with memories of dead horses on roadsides and German planes strafing the refugees, the teenager was deported to Siberia. It was there, during three years of forced labor, he was struck by the snow blindness that later forced him to wear his famed tinted glasses. Only in 1944 could Jaruzelski return to Poland, and only then as a recruit in a Polish army put together by Stalin...
Vladivostok (pop. 660,000) is a microcosm of the struggle between the forces of reform and reaction, openness and xenophobia that is seething throughout the U.S.S.R. The city, with its magnificent harbor, could be the commercial gateway to Siberia and the Soviet Far East, which constitute the largest expanse of untapped natural resources in the world. The Maritime Province's fishing and timber industries already earn enough hard currency from exports to have donated Japanese-made sports cars to the region's police, who need the fancy wheels to catch equally well-equipped smugglers and black marketeers...