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Before Litvinenko died, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service stated bluntly that he was "not the kind of person for whose sake we would spoil bilateral relations [with Britain]," and a Kremlin spokesman said talk about any possible role it may have had in the affair was "sheer nonsense." Sergei Yastrzhembsky, Putin's chief envoy to the European Union, suggested that the murder might be part of "a well-orchestrated campaign or plan to consistently discredit Russia and its leader." Asked about the matter at a Russia-E.U. meeting in Helsinki on Friday, Putin described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Bitter Chill | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard women's hockey team easily dispatched host Quinnipiac, 6-1, at the Northford Ice Pavilion on Friday night. The Crimson (8-1-0, 8-1-0 ECAC) received goals from five different sources as it trounced the Bobcats (4-10-0, 3-7-0) in a messy conference affair. After a scoreless opening period, sophomore Jenny Brine got Harvard on the board with a power-play strike, her 13th goal of the season, at the 7:33 mark. Classmate Sarah Vaillancourt pushed the lead to 2-0 with her 9th of the year at 11:55, and senior Liza...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Eases Past Bobcats | 11/25/2006 | See Source »

...lectures and sections and thus pay a price academically by opting to leave early. And even if they depart homeward, their vacation is inevitably rushed as they scamper from lecture directly to the airport on Tuesday afternoon, mutating what should be a relaxing and enjoyable experience into a distressing affair...

Author: By Adam A Solomon | Title: Give Us a Break | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...actor who fulfills the promise of the writing is Lage as Howie, who gives us a husband who is fundamentally understanding, but too tired to keep laboring at his fractured marriage. Even when Becca’s sister Izzy (Geneva Carr) questions Howie about what appears to be an affair, we manage to identify with the frustration that led him there, even as we are disgusted by his ineffective attempt to deny it.Carr as Izzy and Anderman as Nat come off with similar degrees of blandness, which is disappointing, given the wildly different nature of each character. Izzy...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Huntington’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ Might be Better in An Alternative Universe | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...impression is that past silence means it’s okay.” Harvard’s Asian-American community in general, to the dismay of many leaders within it, has historically been slow to anger and reluctant to speak out against perceived injustices. The Boxer Rebellion affair is symptomatic of a greater issue: when dealing with racism that takes more subtle forms than threats of violence or ethnic slurs, as Ho puts it, “You find yourself in this gray area, where the question is, is this a big enough deal for me to make...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Problematic Party | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

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