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...DIED. GYULA OBERSOVSZKY, 74, Hungarian poet and journalist who played a leading role in the failed 1956 revolt against Soviet rule; in Budapest. On the second day of the uprising, Obersovszky founded an independent newspaper, Truth, and after the revolt's repression launched a samizdat called We Are Alive. Sentenced to hang for organizing demonstrations against the Red Army, Obersovszky was saved after the intervention of Western intellectuals, including Bertrand Russell...
...Popehood is mistaken and even offensive. After all, the choice of John Paul II surprised the world, as did every other recent papal election except for that of Paul VI in 1963. Certainly the fateful role the current Pope has played in history--hastening Europe's escape from Soviet communism--has, for many, an otherworldly quality. Will the Holy Spirit indeed pick the new Pope? Perhaps, but it will have only human beings from which to choose...
...they had valiantly fought against a fascist army before the U.S. officially declared war on international fascism. He saw their combat as the ultimate example of heroism and commitment to the democratic principle of freedom. But others around the state clamored that the Brigaders had been agents of a Soviet plan to spread communism around the world...
...miracles and astonishments among which they have been raised, the scientific and technological transformations. They take these things for granted. But the computerization of the world, the globalized economy, the Internet, the mapping of the human genome, following on the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Empire, and the waning of the threat of nuclear world war - these things stand in such contrast to the previous lives of older Americans as to represent a metamorphosis, a passage to a new planet, also called Earth but unknowably different from what the elders knew when young...
...Upsets are welcome at the Olympics, so long as Americans come out of top. Rulon Gardner winning wrestling gold in Sydney was inspirational. The Soviet Union beating the U.S. men's basketball team in Seoul failed to inspire anything but the creation of the Dream Team...