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...them into the truck. That night the bodies of four of the workers, clad only in underpants, were dumped at the cemetery's gate; on the chest of one of them were burned the initials of a right-wing death squad. The whereabouts of the fifth victim remains unknown...
...furnished Jews with false papers and helped them flee to neutral territories, sometimes only hours before the Germans arrived. Although he saved tens of thousands, Wallenberg could not save himself. He was arrested by the Soviet troops entering Hungary and vanished into another kind of gulag. His fate is unknown today, and his monument is this sadly abbreviated biography...
...later on the centennial of Picasso's birth, the Fogg's Gary Tinterow has assembled more than 100 drawing watercolors, and guaches from 50 collections and museums around the world. Because of the recent settling of Picasso's estate, it is now possible to exhibit works that were previously unknown--and the Fogg has done just that...
...student is often more competent than his Western counterpart because he specializes in only one area. The rigidity of this educational program partially compensates for the inferior technology and materials available. The cost is creativity. A college education is five years in duration, but highly structured. Electives are almost unknown, as is the Western idea of liberal arts...
...legitimacy. While no one ever elected the Bolsheviks, they can at least claim that they successfully defended the "Mother Homeland" from the German fascists. The government has a great stake in perpetuating the war's memory. War memorials are ubiquitous. In every major city, scouts guard tombs of unknown soldiers with Kalashnikov assault rifles. At each change of the guard four more 14-year-olds goose-step out to symbolically protect the "Mother Homeland" from another invasion...