I When the gloom of wintertide was deepest, when snow and ice fettered the earth, and a frost-wind came shoreward…
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I At 11:37 in the morning of Nov. 20, 2025, Eastern European Time, the United States Embassy in Kyiv’s X…
It is with no small feeling of regret that we observe how completely the civic traditions of our early Republic…
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In Mao Zedong’s 1957 speech “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People,” delivered at the Zhongnanhai’s Huairen Hall…
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see…
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At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution, the future novelist Han Shaogong found himself exiled to a small village in…
