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Nobel prizewinning novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn will end 20 years of exile in the U.S. to return to his native Russia within "a matter of months," according to his wife...
...understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?" In 1945, Soviet soldiers raped 2 million German women as a massive payback for everything the Nazis had done to Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was a Soviet army captain in East Prussia in 1945, recorded: "All of us knew very well that if the girls were German, they could be raped and then shot. That was almost a combat distinction...
...author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to write a new story, set in the third millennium. His tale, The Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind's vulnerability to asteroid impacts, a subject that is just now capturing the attention of the scientific mainstream...
...Ukraine as a separate country, not least because 20% of the population there is Russian. This is an emotional issue with roots both deep and broad, by no means confined to crazies like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who calls his party Liberal Democratic but who is actually a fascistic imperialist. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's new book, Rebuilding Russia, appeals to Ukrainians not to go their own way: "Brothers! We have no need of this cruel partition. The very idea comes from the darkening of minds brought on by the communist years...
...PROFESSORIAL SERVICES: Every academic wants to teach at Harvard for the same reason Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn agreed to give a Commencement speech here after turning down the rest of the Ivy League: "Because it's Harvard...