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...Sakhalin's nightlife, though diverse in its offerings?casinos, discos, cabaret shows and outdoor barbecues abound?is alcohol-driven. This being Russia, the vodka is cheap and plentiful. If you can still walk after the first?or second?bottle, try to get to Yuzhno's popular local brewery in the center of town. Higher-minded pursuits include the Sakhalin regional museum (housed in the Imperial Japanese Government Offices dating from when the Japanese controlled southern Sakhalin from 1905-45), the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chekhov Theater, street markets selling everything from wild berries to furs, and Gagarin Park, complete with...
...things about Saddam, contradictions abound. He is known to surround himself with paranoiac security. Yet when Saddam invited Mohammed Sobhi, an Egyptian actor performing in Baghdad last year, to one of his palaces, security seemed almost nonchalant. Sobhi and his troupe were ushered inside with nary a frisk. Saddam chatted easily, about Iraqi poetry, about the Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside...
...form—and how. When I Was Cruel is the true successor to such Costello classics as This Years Model and Armed Forces. “45,” the first track, could have been an outtake from the latter. Candy-coated organs and big drums abound on this record alongside the trademark rhythmic tics for which Costello is so highly regarded. Never has neurosis been as danceable as on the back-alley jam “Spooky Girlfriend...
...Rumors abound that Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser, one of two instructors who teaches the course, is under pressure to deflate grades because of his role on committees that are pushing for grading reform. “I heard from students that he was planning on restructuring the course and making it much more difficult, at least in terms of grade distributions,” kvetches Abigail M. Wild...
From there, the University should proceed by removing some of the bureaucratic hurdles that face both students and faculty. Examples of how the bureaucracy of decentralization stymies cross-disciplinary studies abound: the cross-registration process is inefficient, there is no centralized calendar of events for all schools, the schools are on different academic schedules and combined degree programs are often an administrative headache for students. The University should align the academic calendars of all of its graduate schools —or at minimum, put all classes on the same time schedule. It should reduce barriers to cross-registration, allow...