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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- With the death of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, the world has lost one of its most remarkable writers, a literary colossus whose extraordinary body of work, while deeply rooted in the Russian literary tradition, nonetheless reverberated with humanistic themes of global importance.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn passed away Sunday at the age of 89 after one of the most extraordinary lives in the history of world literature.

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Today is Friday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2005 with 50 to follow.