Author: Wallace Kaufman (Wallace Kaufman)

Home Wallace Kaufman
Eyes on the Prize of Central Asia
Post
April 1, 1995April 29, 2022Web

Eyes on the Prize of Central Asia

by

In August, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan announced that the capitol of the country would be moved several hundred miles north, from the green city of Almaty, where the presidential palace stands against a background of snow-capped mountains, to the bleak and windy steppes of north-central Kazakhstan, to the present city of Akmola. The official...

Post
October 1, 1986April 21, 2022Correspondence

A Devil’s Dictionary From Nicaragua

by

Revolutions attempt to give new meaning to life. Sometimes changing the definition of words is part of the attempt to change reality. At other times, reality changes first. Nowhere does the traveler have more old words with new meanings than in revolutionary Nicaragua. To help those whose first days in the country are as confused...