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...ills and failures of the Soviet society were explained by the plotting of "trotskiite wreckers." Even after Stalin's agent murdered Trotski with an ice-pick in Mexico in August 1940, his name was invoked to justify terror until Stalin's death in March 1953, and remained a curse till the late 1980s. the whole story...
...finally decide I've had enough, so I shove, as violently as I possibly can, against the human wall. It gives slightly, just enough to allow me to slither to freedom. As I burst out of the crowd, I hear someone saying, "You think this is bad, wait till the finals tomorrow...
...back to me. The way I figure it, I work here. They're my worthless-till-I'm-60 shares and if I want to load up on them when the getting's good that's my decision. (And yes, it does make financial professionals wince when I admit this.) But it's still my call, and if I want a retirement plan that isn't tied to my company's fortunes I can put the money in an IRA or I can go work for somebody else. If AOL then wants to convince me to stay by changing...
...euro has given the war-weary populace a larger sense of belonging. On the euro's third day, residents of the capital, Pristina, braved sub-zero temperatures to get the bills. By day's end, a small grocery on the city's main street had 4.50[Euro] in its till, though prices were still shown in German marks, the official currency since 1999. Kosovars are used to a variety of currencies: U.S. dollars, Swiss francs, Yugoslav dinars. Now there's the euro. Says shopkeeper Shukrane Shaqiri, warming her hands by a stove: "It's the same for us, as long...
...horses in a cavalry charge while using handheld lasers to guide bombers to their targets. The Pentagon began to bomb the Taliban front lines, north of Kabul--the step that got Fahim moving. As a White House official put it later, "We said, 'O.K., if you won't move till we start hitting targets in front of you, we'll hit targets in front of you.' And we started bombing the valley...