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South Bend, Indiana is an unlikely place for a thriving Russian community with a high percentage of piano virtuosos, but history has strange twists... more

Intelligent Design tries with evidence and logic to show that life was designed by an intelligent agency competent to the task... more

Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll portrays what is really an extended argument between Václav Havel and Milan Kundera about Czechoslovakia under communism... more