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The text passages below are from an unpublished book by the East Berlin writer Jürgen Fuchs. Fuchs, born in 1950, belongs to the circle of Wolf Biermann and Robert Havemann. He left school in 1969 and was trained as a skilled worker on the East German Railways. After his service with the National People's Army he studied social psychology in Jena. His writings first appeared in collections and periodicals in 1973. In April 1975, after a public reading of some of his works, he was expelled from the Party, expelled from the University a few days before the conclusion of his course, and branded a 'counter-revolutionary' and 'slanderer of the State'. On 19 November 1976, having signed a letter of protest against Biermann's expatriation, he was arrested. The passages below, from Fuchs' book Aide-Memoire, were published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in November 1976.

Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli.TERENTIANUS MAURUSThe triumph of Marxism in backward Russia is commonly regarded as a historical anomaly. Yet, some forty-five years before the Bolshevik Revolution, Marx's Das Kapital in Russian translation had already won quick acclaim. Indeed, the book for a brief time enjoyed greater renown in Russia than in any other country, and it won a warm reception—for highly varied reasons— in many political quarters. Although valuable studies have been written on the first responses to Marxism in Russia, little note has been taken of the rapid and widespread success the book scored, and the reasons for this success have received even less attention. An exploration of these reasons will therefore cover a rarely traveled byway of Russian intellectual history.

Maha Barghouti is a name Jordanians will remember for the longest time. She was the first and only athlete to grant Jordan its first ever gold medal in an Olympic event in December 2000. Barghouti's achievement during the Sydney Paralympics in the Wheelchair table tennis competition lifted Jordan's flag waving in Sydney's skies. "I always dreamt of being the one who will lift Jordan's name high in an Olympic event, and thank God my dream came true," Barghouti said.