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...white monument to Nikita Khrushchev or the haunting marble bust of Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva (the dictator is buried beside the Kremlin Wall). Since Gorbachev urged historians to fill in the "blank spaces" of the past, the pain of the Stalinist years is no longer a taboo topic...
...examination of the moment in 1972 when West met East on the tarmac at Peking, a heroic opera for an unheroic age. Although historical operas are not unusual (Verdi's Don Carlos, for example), it is rare for a new work to treat personages of such recent vintage. The topic is resonant, for the former President still arouses potent emotions in those whose political consciousness was forged by Viet Nam, Kent State and Watergate. But the Minnesota-born Goodman was only ten years old when Nixon was elected and 16 when he resigned; now living in England, she brings...
During the first days in the Vatican's modern, tiered synod hall, the status of women emerged as a pressing topic. It was addressed in speeches by no fewer than 32 participants, much to the delight of the U.S. delegation, which had made the issue a priority. Not everyone was so pleased. When Ireland's Tomas Cardinal O Fiaich stated that the women's issue is "no longer an American aberration," another bishop was heard to grumble, "Yeah, it's now a worldwide aberration...
...addition to collecting money for E4D, previous graduating classes have sponsored various pro-divestment projects. Seniors have "worn sashes or held balloons that said 'Divest Now,' written the message on their hats, held educational speeches and forums on the topic during commencement week, and even had more serious protests," Martin said...
Whether the crash caused the Depression or merely presaged it is still a $ topic of debate. Nobody can say with certainty what caused those twin catastrophes or who is to blame, and so theoreticians have accused greedy speculators, Wall Street manipulators, gold merchants and a carnival of other scapegoats. Those experts who contend that the crash did bring on the Depression blame the Federal Reserve for reacting to the collapse by allowing the money supply to diminish, thereby stifling consumption and investment. Others argue that the stock tumble was essentially a market correction and simply signaled the start...