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...very act of revelation is a central feature in the gradual loosening of Communist strictures that Mikhail Gorbachev is bringing to the Soviet Union, as he grapples with the challenge of revamping the system without completely violating it -- and a stark contrast to the refusal of China's leadership to countenance the slightest openness...
...away everything of value: bricks, aluminum siding, copper wire, even heavy cast-iron manhole covers from the potholed streets to be sold for scrap. The housing authority complains that aluminum downspouts are swiped from its buildings within hours of installation. Trash-strewn vacant lots along the river stand in stark contrast to the gleaming Gateway Arch of St. Louis, in plain sight less than a mile away across the river...
...film broadcast to millions of Soviets showed charred railroad cars without windows lying at odd angles amid twisted tracks and broken railroad ties. The area was blackened and barren as though it had been bulldozed, a stark contrast to the plush green of trees dominating the landscape...
Baker arrived and departed to standing ovations, and his 27-minute address was interrupted 22 times by applause, but in no time, the White House and State Department switchboards were flooded with calls complaining about the stark tone, specificity and "excessive balance" of the proposals...
Additionally, as time passes on, the optimism of Black students during the late 1970s and early 1980s is being replaced by the realization that racism is alive and seething in the hearts and minds of the American populace. This awakening comes from the stark realities of being Black in America. It comes from being called nigger in the classroom and the boardroom rather than just in railroad stations and at bus stops. It is the realization that a middle-class or upper-class or educated Black is still, in the eyes of white America, just Black. A Harvard degree does...