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Taiga forests, first class follies and a Slavic Lolita in short-shorts enliven the train journey that has no end.
By Rolf Potts
November 12, 1999
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At an obscure border town, our
correspondent discovers the biggest obstacle in negotiating the next
4,000 miles: The train has left without him.
By Rolf Potts
November 10, 1999
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Courtney Love's directorial debut -- in glorious plaid! Patenstein? Count Patula? The Wolfpat? Pollsters say Buchanan's more trick than treat.
By Amy Reiter
October 29, 1999
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In his new collection, the author of the kaleidoscopic "Thirst" focuses on a single setting -- Russia.
By Laura Miller
October 25, 1999
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With bombs exploding from Moscow to Chechnya, nerves are tense everywhere. Is it all a power-saving ploy by Yeltsin? Or is the country on the verge of collapse?
By Jeffrey Tayler
October 2, 1999
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Over a Big Mac and fries, the man who brought McDonald's to Russia discusses burgers, communism and Boris Yeltsin's craving for salt.
By Jenn Shreve
July 2, 1999
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An overland journey exposes a traveler to the hazards of radiation, desolation and snowstorms.
By Jeffrey Tayler
March 5, 1999
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A Peace Corps worker unwittingly falls into a romantic adventure with a Russian waitress stranded in Uzbekistan.
By Jeffrey Tayler
February 25, 1999
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Journalist Thomas Goltz relates a heart-stopping adventure
surreptitiously slipping by Russian border guards across a forbidden frontier
on his way to Chechnya.
By Thomas Goltz
May 26, 1998
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A LEFTIST INTELLECTUAL TRIES TO RESURRECT SOCIALISM AS A MOVEMENT OF "HOPE." HE FAILS.
By David Horowitz
May 4, 1998
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Barbara Ehrenreich on how all-conquering capitalism has turned Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" into a glossy adornment that goes with most decorating schemes.
By Barbara Ehrenreich
April 30, 1998
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The pope's upcoming visit to Cuba and meeting with Fidel Castro is being depicted as a sort of ideological shootout: believer vs. atheist, Catholic vs. Communist, Old World vs. New. But the reality is much more complex.
By Richard Rodriguez
January 19, 1998
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Several new collections celebrate the contributions of the late Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
By Benjamin Ivry
January 5, 1998
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The most serious terrorist threat to America comes not from organized or state-sponsored groups of political militants but from loners with a grudge and a gun.
By Jeff Stein
November 21, 1997
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In this excerpt from 'Open Lands: Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places' by Mark Talpin, the author takes the road less traveled through rural Russia.
By Mark Taplin
November 13, 1997
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