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...vigil on the front steps of the government building in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian Republic, suddenly burst into song. The anthem was an ancient call to battle, glorifying freedom as "the sweetest of words." As its haunting harmonies echoed down nearby Rustaveli Prospect, tens of thousands of Georgians thrust clenched fists into the air. One year ago to the day, on April 9, 1989, Soviet troops had broken up a peaceful demonstration on the very same spot with tanks, shovels and poison gas, killing 20 people. Last week residents gathered in the streets again -- but not just to mourn...
...because we don't think that worker could understand? The current thrust of Harvard's internationalization efforts are targeted towards the elite. In other countries, which are perhaps smaller and more dependent on the international community, almost everyone holds the attitude that they need the rest of the world to survive. The United States shares this need, but it is not something we like to admit...
...they are losses that resonate beyond the runway. Says writer Jonathan Moor, the biographer of designer Perry Ellis: "What is different about the fashion industry, compared to theater or film or music, is that the whole thrust of fashion is really under the influence of about ten major people in the world. Their ideas are the ideas that come down the runways at $10,000 a kick, which are within six months translated into something that comes out at J.C. Penney for $100. And those people are at risk...
...Gorbachev era, they will be astounded by the abrupt changes in the forms of political life that occurred during the punctuated evolution of the period. Mute and spineless holdovers from pre-glasnost days slithered into obscurity and were replaced by frothing creatures distinguished by wide-open mouths and fists thrust upward. Two new autobiographies, published this month in vivid counterpoint, provide a revealing glimpse of this great Soviet transition...
...most of the articles don't even aim for rational persuasion--fallacious or not. The basic thrust of the magazine is not rigorous debate, but frightened reaction against "moral decay and degradation...