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Could these Canadian sisters sweep the freestyle skiing podium in Sochi?

Sports

The three Dufour-Lapointe sisters will be gunning for gold this week in Sochi. All three made the Canadian women’s mogul team. What is it like to compete with – and against – your own sisters.

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Russia marks Afghanistan withdrawal with words of advice for the U.S.

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In audio: Following 1968’s Prague Spring, the Soviets enter Czechoslovakia

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In audio: the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago,’ dies at 89

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