World News | Bill Keller, The New York Times | Wednesday March 2, 2011
As a reporter, I covered two of the greatest losers of the last century. The superlative "greatest" applies both to the scale of the loss -- Mikhail Gorbachev lost Russia and all of its colonies, F. W. de Klerk lost the richest country in Africa -- and to the manner in which they lost it. Our hearts understandably thrill to the courage of those who...
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