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...proud that it took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and a German declaration of war against the U.S., for us finally to enter the war against Hitler? Then, even with the lessons of Munich fresh in mind, we were slower than we might have been to react to Stalin's aggression in Central and Eastern Europe. We foolishly (if inadvertently) suggested early in 1950 that we might not take action to protect South Korea, inviting aggression from the North. We pursued a policy of gradual escalation in Vietnam. Still, our performance during the cold war was, on the whole...
...goes according to plan, the exchange will happen in summer 2008, according to Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91. The Lowell bells, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century, were purchased by an American industrialist just as Josef Stalin was seizing church artifacts across the Soviet Union and melting them down to raw material. The industrialist, Charles R. Crane, gave the bells to Harvard in 1930—the same year the monastery was closed. “These bells serve as a link between the past and present...
...Castro-esque military spunk and penchant for tyranny that polarizes his people. For every Venezuelan who wouldn’t mind going by Comrade, another distrusts Chavez’s hard-line anti-globalization policy and his choice to take some economic cues from the likes of Joseph Stalin. Still, these odds are better than the sub-30 percent approval ratings President Bush is currently working with. Maybe Americans could use a President who knows his way around an M16. What’s wrong with a little collective ownership, anyway? And doesn’t everybody love a parade...
...curious - how did it work? Here you've just finished up Koba the Dread [a non-fiction work about the horrors of the Stalin era], and - what? You weren't done with Russia...
...There is this paradox that terror is always a concession of impotence and insecurity and illegitimacy, and Stalin's rule had that. And with terror comes boredom, in the oddest way. Mohamed Atta brought boredom to us too. It's not just airport queues, with some humorless airport official frisking your 6-year-old daughter. It's the confrontation with the dependent mind. There's no argument possible. We share no points of discourse. It's like being with any fanatical Christian, for instance. The higher faculties just close down, because there's nothing for them to do. So there...