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...more than a dozen countries to chart their own future, offered the hope of democracy to the 150 million people of Russia, and eliminated the Cold War threat of nuclear holocaust. As Yeltsin put it in his 1994 book Struggle for Russia, "I believe that history will record the twentieth century essentially ended Aug. 19 through...
...come to care about Clifford Irving. You remember Clifford - the second-tier novelist who claimed he was writing the authorized biography of the twentieth century's most famous recluse, Howard Hughes. Somehow he got a couple of big-time publishing entities, McGraw-Hill and Life magazine, to believe him. The evidence he produces to prove he has Hughes's cooperation is slender (almost transparently fraudulent), but as with all great scam artists, his success depends entirely on the willingness of his victims to suspend disbelief, Or, putting it another way, to allow their greed to override their common sense. What...
Perhaps one day the starry-eyed young man with his head immersed in a book, oblivious to the genocide in Sudan, will turn out to be the next Proust, who wrote what might be the twentieth century’s greatest novel about pastries. Or perhaps that smelly science nerd, slaving away in the Science Center while you stand outside shouting “No Blood for Oil,” will discover the cure for AIDS. So please, friends, leave them to their bubbles...
...twentieth century, some say, was the golden age of the big, bland chain hotel. Vacationers of the 1950s or '60s took out second mortgages to afford jet travel, supposedly to find, as they hurtled from destination to destination, that a hotel room in Melbourne was the same as one in Manila. Innkeepers were accused of rolling out design templates such that no matter where you awoke in the world, the features of your room-the bedside panel, the writing desk-looked identical. Indeed, the very words Holiday Inn or Hilton took on a pejorative connotation: they were globalization's earliest...
...There was an innocence about growing up in those days,” recalled the perennially bow-tied Schlesinger in “A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings...