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Syria's rehabilitation as a power in the region has been achieved in large part with the help of the Soviet Union. After the Syrians lost $1 billion worth of military equipment, including 86 planes, last year, the Soviets offered an even vaster arsenal. The rearmament, which includes some 75 SA-5 surface-to-air missiles, is estimated to have cost $2 billion. Some 3,000 Soviet advisers are assigned to the Syrian army, and an additional 5,000 Soviet soldiers and technicians maintain the new missile batteries and communication posts. If Syria is able to afford such costly...
That there is no body attached to it, that it is, in fact, a brain kept alive in a bottle by a half-mad scientist, might strike some people as a little funny. It will strike vaster numbers of them as very funny - especially after Steve Martin pastes plastic lips on the bottle so he can kiss his beloved...
...wealthy merchant of Louisville, then a river settlement of 13,000 people, spoke to him in evangelical tones of growth already seen and vaster growth still to come. Preachers of religion, on the other hand, sounded like hawkers, "businessmen of religion." And although Tocqueville found religious observance to be widespread, he judged faith to be shallow, like the belief of his ancestors in spring tonics. He and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, were supposed to be studying the penal system in the U.S., but in fact they did their best to see everything and talk to everyone. They were friendly...
Thus the picture that emerges from this book is of Pompeii on a far vaster scale. The photos are imbued with more than the familiar charm of things past; they are reflections of Russia's interrupted life story. That would explain the particular poignancy of the emotion experienced by the book's editor, Chloe Obolensky, as she studied the many photos she had unearthed from various libraries and private collections. She recalls in her preface that as the volume took shape, she was moved to see the photographs assume an unexpected "coherence and truth." Few readers can fail...
...closest approximations of truth. Because we are social beings who act and who correspondingly reflect upon our actions, we are possessors of that truth and we have a certain contribution to make in arriving at that truth. The instructor, because he possesses more information and has a vaster store of experiences his students, guides his students and in turn is guided by them...