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In Microsoft vs. Google, search is still master by Raissa Kasolowsky, Reuters via Globe and Mail (Feb 4)
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Raissa was six weeks old when her parents separated.
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As Raissa later recorded, her mother sued, but the Russian Orthodox Church, which judged such cases at that time, decided in favor of her father, a Christian (Berg 1988, 3 – 5).
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Shortly thereafter Simon and Raissa were also baptized into the Lutheran faith.
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His elder daughter Raissa lived with him and kept house, so far as that was possible.
The Watch 2006
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I went up to Raissa and stood directly facing her.
The Watch 2006
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“Let me go, let me go,” whispered Raissa, and she made for the door.
The Watch 2006
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“I should like to write correctly,” observed Raissa, and she flushed a little.
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Raissa impressed me by her calm: she looked pale and much thinner but did not shed tears and spoke and behaved with perfect simplicity; and with all that, strange to say, I saw a certain grandeur in her; the unconscious grandeur of sorrow forgetful of itself!
The Watch 2006
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Raissa would appear at the hurdle fence of our garden which looked into a lane and there have an interview with David; she did not come for the sake of conversation, but told him of some new difficulty or trouble and asked his advice.
The Watch 2006
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