Russian Travel Restrictions

[Wendell W. Solomons]

At 01:24 PM 4/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>> Na to i suchestvujut pravila, chtoby ix narushat'
>>> Inache neinteresno zhit'.
>>
>>Tam u vas, da. No nie zdies'.
>
>Na pamjat' prishel starinnyj anekdot:
>
>Vo Francii mozhno vse, dazhe to, chto nel'zja.
>V Anglii mozhno vse, krome togo, chto nel'ja.
>V Gemanii nel'zja nichego, krome togo chto mozhno.
>A v Rossii nel'zja nichego, dazhe to chto mozhno.
>
>(A uzh kak vse ljubjat "ne pushchat' i ne razreshat'"!)

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Privetstvia!
Greetings!

>Tam u vas, da. No nie zdies'.

>A v Rossii nel'zja nichego, dazhe to chto mozhno.

We have been forced to heard phrases of jingoism,
indignation and nihilism being exchanged on this list.

Why not appeal to reason? It is common knowledge that the
rule mentioned has been applied to all foreign students
for several decades to allow students to concentrate on
their studies.

Today it is particularly difficult for a teacher to coach
a student who has missed schoolwork. Real salaries have
dropped so low as compared with, say, the former GDR or
China after the intervention of Harvard's Dr Jeffrey Sachs'
with his market laws in Russia. Within a period of 6 years
it has been seen that a figment of anarchist imagination has
left 20 million people, including some teachers, without
salaries and a bill for $ 11 billion at the ILO, Geneva. This
is a bill for the Western ... and the world taxpayer. Who heard
of Jeffrey Sachs before this? Who cautioned the world?

Anyone?

We have reached the stage of studying the results in
detailed testimony such as that of Janine Wedel (George
Washington University.) Then there is Anne Williamson's
text on the Web at <www.bookagency.com/oligarchy.html>

Russian converts to this anarchism, like Anatoly Chubais,
have been removed from office. The crisis has contributed
to a sensation where most of the cabinet has also been
expelled from office by President Yeltsin. That nation's
destiny and the nuclear suitcase that controls 6000 nuclear
warheads is in the hands of the 67-year old President who
has been in unpredicatable health. While the former GDR and
China are stable without Sach's type intrusions, the
whole Russian parliament may face dissolution on Friday if
it rejects Yeltsin's nominee PM-elect Kiriyenko who has been
discredited already by two rejections by parliament.

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Taking the case of this one student, perhaps that does not
provide the auspices to intrude by placing the bomb of metaphor
in our virtual community like anarchist Timothy McViegh did in
real  community in Oklahoma City.

In the real world there is a price we all pay for inflammatory
interventions.

There is the example of what Ghanian Kofi Annan and Sri Lankan Jayantha
Dhanapala saved us in Iraq. The next few weeks will require thoughts
on how to overcome a much larger crisis, and positive suggestion on
ending that crisis might be particularly welcome on lists.

If the movie "Titanic" is not showing near you, then don't miss the
"The English Patient," acclaimed by Hollywood with 9 Oscars. It is
the testament of an Asian who gave his time to educating several
batches of North American students -- an officer and a gentleman.

Vsekh blag!
All good wishes!

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Chief Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes : Freedom of speech does
not include the right to shout
FIRE in a crowded theatre.