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...officer. After the talk ended, several groups formed circles outside the lecture hall to continue the debate. “There’s a lot of discussion about women and minorities but I want to discuss who I am,” said Yakir A. Reshef...
...momentum is with the moderate center.” Sharon, formerly a member of the right-wing Likud party in Israel, recently formed a new centrist party called Kadima that was expected to achieve a large victory in Israel’s March 28 elections. Some, including Israeli citizen Yakir A. Reshef ’09, said they were concerned that Kadima would be hurt, in the election, by Sharon’s stroke. “[Kadima] had a lot of momentum going before this happened,” he said...
...purpose of an answering machine--no matter how amusing--is still to take messages. Good messages tend to elicit responses from callers, even those who have dialed the wrong number, say students. "It's a good feeling" when one of the messages says "nice message but wrong number," Yakir Siegal's '89 says...
...Historian Pyotr Yakir, 49, was charged with passing information to the West about dissent in the U.S.S.R. Yakir, who had spent 17 years in Stalin's forced-labor camps, admitted his guilt both on the stand and later at an extraordinary public news conference, thereby escaping a prison sentence. Before his trial, however, Yakir had told a British reporter: "If they beat me, I will say anything. I know that from my former experience in the camps...
Latest Effort. Yakir, who has already served 17 years in Soviet prison camps, insisted that he had worked for foreign anti-Soviet organizations and received payment from Western journalists for passing on material critical of the U.S.S.R. The dissident movement, said Yakir and Krasin, was a foreign plot. For longtime Moscow hands, the chilling recital recalled the public confessions at the purge trials of the 1930s. Soviet spokesmen went out of their way last week, however, to insist that the conviction of Yakir and Krasin did not represent a return to Stalinism...