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...time of bloodshed and terror. Stalin's drive to force Soviet peasants into collective farms was at its height. Those who resisted were deported or shot. Peasants destroyed animals rather than let them be confiscated by the collectives. That slaughter, along with the Soviet government's oppressive requisitions of grain from the newly formed collective farms, created a man-made famine that was raging when Gorbachev was born. Millions eventually died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Epee swordsmen Captain Jim O'Neill and Adam Weintraub dominated, each winning all three of their bouts and contributing to the 8-1 slaughter in the epee event--Harvard's long-standing warhorse. Foil contenders finished with a 5-4 score and sabre contenders, who are a notably young but promising group, won four out of nine bouts...

Author: By Matthew L. Schuerman, | Title: Fencers Slash Brandeis Apart | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

...League has sent two teams to the slaughter. Dartmouth took a dive, 62-23, and Brown rolled over, 41-0. In the Brown game, the Cross used a hurry-up offense in the last two minutes simply to ensure a 40-point margin of victory...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Unholy Crusaders | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

Three students refused to be involved in the slaughter, said Hannah Gittleman '88. Gittleman said she could not do the project because she thought she would develop a relationship with the chicken...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: VES Students Slaughter Birds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

Another member of the class, Gitanjali S.Bodner '90, said she "wasn't really bothered" bythe slaughter, "except for the smell. It didn'treally bother me to kill something...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: VES Students Slaughter Birds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

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