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BILL CLINTON DOESN'T KNOW ANASTASIA GVOZDIKOVA, BUT HE SHOULD. As one of only a few thousand Russians studying in the U.S., Gvozdikova can testify to the truth of the President's assertion that "freedom, like anything sweet, is hard to take from people once they've had a taste of it."

Last summer Gvozdikova lived with her parents in Boris Yeltsin's hometown, a city of 2 million called Yekaterinburg, about 1,000 miles east of Moscow -- and the place where Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down in 1960. Today, thanks to a few good-hearted citizens in Ruston, Louisiana, who are...

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