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Luke worked in St. Petersburg, where he had to deal with the effects of Russia’s communist history on its people. Because of their experiences, after the Soviet Union fell, a lot of people wouldn’t listen to the missionaries because “they thought you were just trying to brainwash them,” Langford said...

Author: By Jennifer P. Jordan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Mormon Men | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...unpopular, why did Merkel so obviously fail to garner more enthusiasm? She had a few cards in her favor: Germany has never had a female chancellor, nor one from East Germany, and her credibility as an economic liberalizer is enhanced because she is a former inhabitant of Soviet-controlled East Germany. Her program promised a strengthened transatlantic alliance to end the excessive anti-American zeal of the Schrder era. Above all, it aimed to relaunch the German economy through liberalization, easily the most discussed issue in the pre-electoral debate...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: Quo Vadis, Germania? | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...born in Hungary in 1944 and, after Soviet troops invaded the country to crush a popular uprising in 1956, fled to the U.S. He now serves on the board of the Central European University in Budapest...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Endowment Reaches $25.9 Billion | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...World War II erupts, into the Red Army. Kaja's charismatic father Ul'an decides to fight for his people's freedom by joining the invading German forces. He befriends a scholarly Wehrmacht officer, Günther Berger. Amid the inferno of Stalingrad and the coarser hell of a Soviet prison camp, Ul'an exacts a pledge from Berger that will alter Kaja's life completely. This consigns her, at age 9, to a new life amid the ruins of postwar Cologne and a tribe of incomprehensible strangers. "I felt like a creature cut off from everything," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gone with the Wind | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

Carrying on their trademark flair for quirky comedy, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has launched the script of its 158th production—a play in which prewar tensions and Soviet shenanigans meet up with pirates, movie stars, and a great white shark...

Author: By April B. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Launches Script for New Production | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

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