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… more than seventy years of building the bright future of Communism, there were only dilapidated factories and cities … People who grew up in the Soviet era were raised on a diet of lies, and, even now, many struggle to divide old … murdered and dumped in mass graves in that forest. As Meis points out, any memorial—to the dead of Katyn, to the …
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… in my essay in the Fall 2009 issue, “ I Have Decided Not to Die .” Balakian led the show’s correspondent, Bob Simon, to … to one in Balakian’s memoir Black Dog of Fate . Simon also interviews Armenian religious officials and the Turkish … 60 Minutes piece, called “ Battle Over History .” I also recommend highly Armenian Golgotha , the survival memoir of …
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… crackdown. I had help connecting the dots. On the museum’s website, you can browse some of the collection, scroll … range from schmaltzy to venting to pithy to bitterly comical. A few even sound victorious in their sense of … closure and good riddance. And while most of the testimonials are about imploded romances, a few offer more oblique …
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… will shape the content for the print and digital magazine, website, and future e-books and will provide creative … enthusiasm for new technologies as well as a steadfast commitment to literature and exceptional journalism. In an … chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “He also knows how to shape the work of a writer. In his …
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… A former marine, Morris contributes Entries from The New Combat Contractionary: An Exercise in Interpretive … ,” by David J. Morris, Winter 2008 The New York Times is also taking this opportunity to look back, with their “Five … Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War commemorative website. They combine video, still photos, interview audio, …
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… for the immigrant experience. Like Clark Kent, many Jewish comic book readers had been displaced at a young age by a … As the country sank into the Great Depression, tent revivals cropped up across the rural South and Midwest. Itinerant … impulse toward visual narratives of miracle had inspired medieval illuminated manuscripts, the triptychs of Hieronymus …