Word: waking
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...difference between journalists and Evil Empire theorists is that journalists are in the business of reporting change. (Each day editors and anchormen wake up, look out over the world's landscape and ask suspiciously, "Who moved?") When more than 100 imprisoned dissidents had been set free, nearly two months after Sakharov's release, a story from Moscow Correspondent Philip Taubman made the front page of the New York Times: SOVIET TURNS A BIG CORNER -- RELEASE OF DISSIDENTS MORE THAN A GESTURE. Taubman found in Sakharov's release not only Gorbachev's desire to soften international opinion but also his need...
Roll over, Karl Marx. Wake up, Friedrich Engels. Nearly 150 years after The Communist Manifesto and 70 years after the Russian Revolution, free enterprise is coming back to the Soviet Union. Businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shoe repair to interior decoration are being legalized under a new "individual labor" law that takes effect this Friday -- which happens, ironically, to be the international socialist holiday May Day. The measure makes it possible for the first time since Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s for individuals to make money legally according to a decidedly un-Marxist principle: from...
...growing violence has forced moderates on both sides to drift toward the extremes. Some analysts speculate that this is the Tigers' intent: by provoking a backlash and polarizing opinion, they hope to preclude a negotiated peace. For many Sinhalese, any sympathy for the Tamil cause evaporated in the wake of last week's attacks...
...wake of bloodshed on both sides of the racial conflict, however, a , number of executives are emphasizing caution. Concerned about the A.N.C.'s endorsement of violence and the substantial number of Communists in its ranks, Oppenheimer said the organization should get "neither moral support nor material support...
Standing in a long reception line, I was too preoccupied watching Geoffrey, the Toys "R" Us giraffe, dance by to notice a dinky little man in his wake. Before I had a chance to penetrate his baffling disguise (Shatner was out of regulation Starfleet uniform), the great one was gone, leaving only a trail of hair from his rapidly balding pate behind. No story this time, but it was well worth it to bask in the aura of greatness...