Attention, all of you out there with Adjustment Problems, with Bad People Skills. Bring me your tired, your Poorly Adjusted, all you with Serious Attitude Problems and Persistent Authority Issues. ...
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Moscow (dpa) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning
Russian author who turned the world's attention to the horrors of the
Soviet gulag system, was announced Tuesd...
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Russian Orthodox priests consecrated a wooden cross Wednesday at a site south of Moscow where firing squads executed thousands of people 70 years ago at the height of Josef Stalin's political purge...
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Riga (dpa) - When Japan's Emperor Akihito announced plans to visit
the Baltic states ten days ago, he said he wanted to "reflect on the
difficulties each of these countries ...
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Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn has accused the West of trying to ignore and sideline Russia.The 88-year old author, who documented the murderous Soviet prison camp system based on his own se...
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Question 1 of 10:Though he had no interest in it,
Dostoevsky
was pushed by his stern and domineering father into becoming...?A doctorAn accountant
An engineer
An architectQuestion 2 of 10:He woul...
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SEOUL, Dec 6 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday its
reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, had received a personal letter
from U.S. President George W. Bush, who once publicly likened
Kim to a spoil...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church in Cuba
said Thursday it was seeking an explanation from country's
communist authorities for the beating and arrest of dissidents
in a parish hall two ...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Estonian author Jaan Kross has died after a long
illness, local media reported on Friday.
An author of historical fiction who was imprisoned under Na...
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