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...Under the Soviet Union, the official line was that World War II was a battle between communists and fascists. The Nazis' "Final Solution" program to exterminate Jews was rarely mentioned. And although Holocaust teaching is now officially on the syllabus of Ukrainian schools, many of the nation's youth remain ignorant of what their grandparents lived through...
SULLIVAN: Tell us about your youth. HILLARY: I was born here in Auckland, but the first 15 years of my life we lived 40 miles south in a small village called Taukau and I went to primary school there. My mother was a school teacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impovrished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. I found the city rather trying. I was definitely very much a country boy. I was a really weedy 11-year-old, then I grew five inches one year...
...from him. His very expression is off-putting. I'm 80 years old, not a profane person and quite benign in my declining years. But when I opened my copy of the magazine and saw that low-angle shot of Putin, I impulsively shouted a curse, like an uncouth youth. Andrew Halmay, Toronto...
...Ignatius wrote in "A Tsar is Born" that "No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's." But I noticed that the class photo accompanying the story showed Putin as a youth of 14 with eyes devoid of emotion. Putin may not have been born with an emotionless stare, but he certainly developed it early. Audrey Thomas, Tottenham, Canada...
...extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don't mean CDs. Vinyl records, especially the full-length LPs that helped define the golden era of rock in the 1960s and '70s, are suddenly cool again. Some of the new fans are baby boomers nostalgic for their youth. But to the surprise and delight of music executives, increasing numbers of the iPod generation are also purchasing turntables (or dusting off Dad's), buying long-playing vinyl records and giving them a spin...