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...argue, the U.S. seemed a bit more ordinary in more places than the football field. Ever since the Soviet Union imploded, we have gotten used to the idea of a unipolar world, with one superpower, whose capital is Washington. It remains the case that no other nation has such a combined preponderance of economic, political, military and cultural assets as the U.S. Even so, we now know that American might is not always able to bend the world and the times to its will. The clearest example of that, obviously, is the nearly four-year-long failure of the Bush...
...bold 80s colors and far-too-short shorts, the duo race down the beach and into the ocean, where they proceed to do one of those spinning slo-mo hugs. This somehow shows that Rocky has regained the “eye of the tiger.” 1. Soviet boxer Ivan Drago kills all-American Apollo Creed (“Rocky IV”)—The Cold War turns hot, though not as hot as the tears that are sure to roll down your cheeks. Inspired by this incident, President Reagan decides to end global communism...
...Benjamin I. Rapoport ’03. This fact, however, has not dampened the spirits of the students who climb the stairs to the bell tower every Sunday to create the jovial—if mildly clamorous—bell-ringing festivities.The Lowell House bells were purchased from the Soviet Union by Charles R. Crane, who presented them as a gift to Harvard in 1930. Since the fall of the USSR and the end of forced secularism in Russia, the monks of the Danilov Monastery—whence the bells originate—have been asking for their return...
...same week that Iran hosted a conference of Holocaust-deniers and its President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, warned that Israel will wind up like the Soviet Union in the scrap heap of history, a European Union Court ruled that a fiercely dedicated armed group that opposes his regime had been unfairly placed on the E.U.'s official list of terrorist organizations. The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is also on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations, although much to Tehran's chagrin, the U.S. did not hand over the group's fighters when it took control of their main base...
...responsible for murdering. Human rights groups have regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba’s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous—especially in South America, where communist revolutionaries were often backed by naïve electorates and armies of loyal guerilla fighters. Compared to other South American dictatorships?...