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...story of Utopian Marxist ideological dream turned into brutal, malevolent history becomes, in this telling, an exploration of personality. Here we have Victor Abakumov, Stalin's head of secret police: "Abakumov ... was another colorful, swaggering torturer, amoral condottiere and 'zoological careerist' who possessed all Beria's sadism but less of his intelligence. Abakumov unrolled a bloodstained carpet on his office floor before embarking on the torture of his victims in order not to stain his expensive Persian rugs...
Harvard may have gotten the best of its New Haven archrival in the last four annual football contests, but Yale was declared the victor yesterday in the most recent clash of the Ivy League titans—the contest to see which school could collect more blood for the American Red Cross...
General Superintendent for the BRI project, Victor M. Pereira said, “We are not sure what the origin was,” but added that he had heard the fire was possibly caused by a light bulb...
...victor will be determined on the basis of a scoring system in which points are awarded based on the amount of blood donated, the number of first-time donors, the percentage of the student population that shows up to donate, and the number of volunteers that help to run the drive...
...absence of reliable nationwide opinion polls, predicting a victor in the Jan. 30 election is a fool's game. Even if the Shi'ite slate lives up to claims by its leaders that it has the backing of 60% of the country, it's hard to know who would emerge as the candidate for Prime Minister...