Word: russianizing
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...early 20th-century Anatevka, a small town in the Russian Pale—the region where many Jews were confined under Russian czarist rule—Fiddler tells the story of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joseph Stein, the 1960s musical is based on a story by writer Sholom Aleichem...
...What's your reaction to the explanation that the Russian government is ending the Peace Corps agreement simply because there is no longer an economic need for the program? I accept that. That's the way the Peace Corps works in every country. It's not up to us to decide what a country needs or doesn't need. What about the spying allegations? My reaction is to emphasize what Peace Corps and Peace Corps volunteers do, which is to come to a country for two years, learn the language and try to learn the culture. They...
...country. Caught in the storm is Jeffrey Hay, the Corps' acting country director for Russia, who was informed on the day after Christmas that Russia would have no further use for his services or those of his volunteers and 24 staffers (most of them Russian). Hay must now help the Corps volunteers scattered throughout Russia plan speedy departures. The U.S. ambassador, Alexander Vershbow, is furious at the insinuations. Patrushev's comments, he says, "are outrageous, untrue and harmful to the work that Peace Corps volunteers are carrying on world-wide. We categorically reject allegations that Peace Corps volunteers have been...
...times the Russian President seemed an enlightened leader, helping in the hunt for al-Qaeda and taking a junior membership in NATO. But when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater in October, Putin responded with an opiate gas that killed 129 hostages. His KGB days are behind him, but the West's new friend can still be an enigma...
...married to his high school sweetheart, overcomes solid incumbent to win a seat in the Senate. There he storms, and eventually charms, Washington with his rabble-rousing advocacy for the downtrodden. Before he was killed in a plane crash just days before the November election, the Minnesotan son of Russian-Jewish immigrants was a voice for laborers, the poor and the mentally ill, emphatically embracing the long-out-of-fashion label "liberal." In October, Wellstone was one of 23 Senators to vote against the resolution to authorize using force against Iraq. His righteous indignation and occasionally long-winded speeches could...