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Who will decide Armenia's destiny-- patriots or tyrants?
Across an ocean and a continent, on a sliver of land tucked between two seas, a little republic has just entered its 20th year of independence. I know a man there, an American by birth-- except that 20 years ago, he quit his law firm in Los Angeles, decided he had no further business in the United States, and went to search for his destiny in Armenia.
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Waiting for Armenia
My father, Raffi K. Hovannisian, once a football star on the Pali High Dolphins, quit his law firm and moved with wife and children to Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. After independence was officially declared on September 21, 1991, my father was told he was the republic's first minister of foreign affairs and handed a fax machine and a first month's paycheck of 600 rubles -- $143. \"Achke kusht e,\" the people say of him, \"His eye is full.\" In other words: the man has seen the world, and he's not in politics for the money. In Armenia, that is enough. Last month, Armenia hosted a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a post-Soviet alliance including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- all republics unclaimed by the West that are now following an ancient gravity to its source in mother Russia. During the August meeting of the organization, Russia secured a 24-year extension of its lease on a key military base in Armenia. Actually, lease isn't the word; the base is funded and sustained entirely by the Armenian state.
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Who will decide Armenia's destiny -- patriots or tyrants?
Power-hungry tycoons The rulers are multimillionaires, the lot of them, though they have incurred great debts to the original power tycoons surrounding the Kremlin in Moscow, to whom they have been selling the country's gold mines and electricity plants. [...] they are ready to sell much more than that. [...] lease isn't the word.\\n
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Who will decide Armenia's destiny-- patriots or tyrants?
Across an ocean and a continent, on a sliver of land tucked between two seas, a little republic today enters its 20th year of independence. I know a man there, an American by birth-- except that 20 years ago, he quit his law firm in Los Angeles, decided he had no further business in the United States, and went to search for his destiny in Armenia.
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An Unbeliever's Prayer
The exclamatory silliness is enough to raise the eyebrows of the book's American audience, but to the resilient reader, it does convey an interesting idea: religious values without religiosity.
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Mencken Slept Here
On the ground floor of home, as of personality, a small parlor with a grand piano hosted Mencken's Saturday Night Club, a regular event that attracted a set of bachelors with personal devotion to classical music and public enthusiasm for beer and brotherhood. The man who published Langston Hughes, exhorted Richard Wright to produce novels, and collected death threats for condemning lynchings and segregation in Baltimore was cast as a racist not by deed or action but because, in his contemptuous remarks about Methodists, Jews, Germans, southerners, popes, peasants, the masses in general, and the full catalogue of earthly and divine creatures, he was shown to have spoken contemptuously of blacks as well.
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Don't forget Armenian genocide Putting Turkey on record for its actions in 1915 didn't go well in Congress, but it's still the right thing to do
[...] it is with the House's Armenian genocide resolution, the delicate dream of an underdog people who have, since their slaughter and dispossession in 1915, struggled to bring memory to power.
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