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...Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, who used 160 pseudonyms, the most famous being Lenin, woke up at 10:30 a.m. on the day he was to die. About 18 months earlier, he had suffered a massive stroke and never fully recovered, so 10:30 was not so late for the old revolutionary to rise. He had some coffee, but it did not take, and he went back to bed. By evening Lenin was running a high fever, as Oxford historian Robert Service recounts in Lenin: A Biography. Lenin's Bolshevik buddy Nikolai Bukharin was there at the end: "When I ran into...
...land in Athens. The hijacker used three razor blades and four candlesticks to commandeer the aircraft. A Greek prosecutor charged him with a string of criminal offenses; authorities did not immediately respond to Ankara's request for extradition to Turkey. Arming the Iraqis RUSSIA George W. Bush complained to Vladimir Putin about Russian firms' alleged sale of military technology to Baghdad. Antitank missiles used to knock out two American tanks in Iraq last week were Russian-made Cornets, U.S. officials contend. And they say a Moscow-based company supplied the GPS-jamming equipment that Iraq deployed against allied forces...
...Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution requiring return of inspectors and threatening “serious consequences” for Iraq if it fails to cooperate. Iraq accepts the U.N. resolution, and weapons inspections begin. Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the U.S. not to go it alone against Iraq...
...island and objected to a requirement that he said "would force 100,000 Turkish Cypriots to leave their homes to make way for returning Greek Cypriots." The failure of the talks means that only the internationally recognized south will join the E.U. in 2004. KGB Redux? RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin reshuffled Russia's security forces, bringing together many of the functions of the former KGB under the auspices of its present-day successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB). The move strengthens Putin's position in advance of forthcoming Duma and presidential elections, by tightening his control over internal security. Putin...
...tale of tragic unrequited love centers on Tatyana, portrayed by Jane Lynch ’03 last Friday. She is a daughter of the petty nobility stranded on a country estate and mired in reading romantic novels. When Onegin comes to visit with Vladimir Lensky, the beau of her sister Olga, Tatyana falls instantly in love with him. Thus begins the tragedy...