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I don’t read the New York Times very much, but in scouring headlines this evening I came across a great op-ed from yesterday’s edition. The writer reminisces about the end of communism in Prague and the moment he and his countrymen finally came to realize that freedom was real.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/op...sler.html?_r=1

IN a stadium in Prague, 20 years ago today, a hundred thousand people, including my father and me, saw something we were not supposed

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Lady That Hast my Heart
by [B]Hafiz[/B]

LADY that hast my heart within thy hand,
Thou heed'st me not; and if thou turn thine ear
Unto the wise, thou shalt not understand--
Behold the fault is thine, our words were clear.
For all the tumult in my drunken brain
Praise God! who trieth not His slave in vain;
Nor this world nor the next shall make me fear!

My weary heart eternal silence keeps--
I know not who has ...

where glacier greets sea
the crashing, calving flow
gives voice to every storm
that added to its stream,
replies to each stone
overturned by groaning ice,
and rings with echoes
of the shearing squeal of
rock etching rock

then asea,
as centuries bob
in new disquiet,
ice becomes the sea,
and melts into
the depths
of its own
silence

No, I don't speak any Russian. I got this song from a friend's computer a long time ago. It's by the band Mashina Vremeni, they're a very well known Russian band. I had about 7 or 8 of their songs, and this is the only one I can find now. I really loved their songs, and I remember them so fondly, listening to them gave me such a nice feeling. I wish I can one day find the other songs I had of theirs. I never knew any of the words, I don't believe, although maybe I did look them up at one time for ...