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When the Soviet Union was disintegrating during the late autumn of 1991, a band of disillusioned demonstrators gathered in Red Square. Bobbing along in their midst, under the shelter of the Kremlin's looming brick walls, was a placard that read 70 YEARS ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE. The accusation was an angry and poignant truth. But then Russia was reborn under the old tricolor flag and set a new course toward not just reform but total transformation. And now, with the collapse of the economy and the paralysis of the government, that hopeful path has also run into...
...small graves lie in the southeastern section of the old cemetery, near a stand of pine. They are surrounded by the resting places of other infants, many of whom never received first names: here is a placard denoting Baby Girl White, and another for Baby Boy Morris. Only a few life spans are commemorated, and many of these are shockingly short: weeks, days and even hours. Russ Briggs comes here often; he cannot stay away. "Those two, right there, those are my boys," he says, his voice cracking. "I could have saved them, but I let them...
...here for our country, for a free Tibet and also for those who are in prison in Tibet. We want to free prisoners," she said, waving a placard with the photo and name of a Tibetan political prisoner...
...looked out my window across the Yard at the placard-toting group of students who had convened around the John Harvard statue Monday afternoon, I considered walking over to learn more about the particular which cause excited them: the whole diversity thing. I wanted to know what approaches or suggestions the coalition had, what ingenious or compelling ideas this consortium of students had conceived to help increase the number of minority faculty members. Not only did the protesters cry of "We want diversity and we want it now" ruin my concentration, it undermined my interest in the diversity coalition...
...predominantly African-American. Washington, D.C. is predominantly African-American. Its city council is predominantly African-American. Yet, change the team's name to the Washington Darkies and just sit back and watch the riots flare up. Everyone from Jesse Jackson to Louis Farrakhan would find himself between a microphone, placard and television camera screaming racism...