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...Kiryat Arba, the largest [Jewish] city in my sector, to speak with new immigrants from Russia. The audience is made up of people who came to our country and found themselves in a reality that is strange to them. To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's "War and Peace," which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon. Here in our small country we do not have the wide spaces that would allow a retreat from Moscow. The tension is broken, the audience listens to what I say, which is translated into...
...What most impressed Wyant was when Coles found out he was writing his thesis on Tolstoy, a favorite author of his, and spontaneously offered to be Wyant's thesis advisor...
Does accurate history matter? Maybe it's necessarily all projection? Maybe there isn't any final draft - only addition and revision, praise and debunking, the endless spin and counterspin of ideology and propaganda? Tolstoy said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if only it were true...
When initial searches on "Tolstoy," "Microsoft" and "love" proved fruitless, I decided to browse through the dozen or so category listings instead. But as I bounced from "education" to "entertainment" to "spirituality," I simply couldn't find a conversation that piqued my interest, except as a voyeur. Perhaps that's why of the 16 people listed in the fun-peers.30s section, only two were actually typing, including someone with the handle BOD2DIE4, who wrote, "No one is talking to me," and someone called YORKIETHE1ST, who asked, "Is everyone asleep in here?" Then I discovered that while Chatscan scours...
...last Wednesday, when the site launched, my visions of heated arguments about Tolstoy and deep discussions of Christianity faded fast. First, I learned that Chatscan doesn't work on Macs or behind most corporate firewalls. Then I found out that while Chatscan does indeed make finding online conversations easier, the quality of the talk hasn't improved much since I gave up on chatting a few years...