Word: communism
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...came up with three finalists, all profiled in this issue, based on the major themes of the century. There was the triumph of freedom over fascism and communism, for which Franklin Roosevelt is the embodiment. To represent the crusades for civil rights and individual liberties, we chose Mohandas Gandhi. And, of course, there was Einstein to represent science and technology...
...should select pope John Paul II. He has brought hope and transmitted the values of peace, liberty and faith to the world. He broke down communism in Europe. He is the greatest leader. JORGE EDUARDO OLIVARES Guadalajara, Mexico...
...Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. The result, in which upward of 70 percent of voters appeared to favor parties backing presidential candidates of varying authoritarian stripe (both Putin and Primakov, remember, are products of the KGB), looks set to give President Boris Yeltsin his friendliest legislature since the collapse of communism. But Putin's bid to be the boss Russian voters clearly crave is based almost entirely on the war in Chechnya, where Moscow's troops have taken control of much of the rebel republic while suffering minimal losses. But the Chechen guerrilla forces have for the most part simply retreated...
...democracy gives nations the governments they deserve, Russians may be forgiven for wondering what they did to deserve the field for Sunday's Duma elections. For the third time since communism's fall, Russian voters go to the polls to choose between parties variously comprising unreconstructed Stalinists, reconstructed Stalinists, Kremlin apparatchiks, opportunist demagogues and a veritable army of dubious former prime ministers...
...Harvard? A guy named James J. Cramer '77 (then hair-famous; now street.com smart) and Crimson pal Steve A. Ballmer '77 (then a turkey shoot victim; now a Microsoft billionaire) decided to start a Crimson magazine. They named it What Is To Be Done, a shout out to communism, a form of socio-political organization, that Mr. Cramer liked a lot. We hear he runs his hedge fund like a good Leninist. Once upon a time, in the late 1990s, the magazine, renamed Fifteen Minutes (that's the written-out form of F.M.), experimented with the esoteric. We've prepared...