nost and Perestroika</a></h1>

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           <p><em>Originally posted 4/16/2006 by John De Oliveira</em></p>
<p>While I was in college in the mid-Eighties, there was a buzz in the air about Gorbachev&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost">glasnost </a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika">perestroika</a>. Those were times filled with anticipation of changing relationships, although few truly knew how much change was coming.</p>
<p>Changes at 