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...what type of impact do you hope this book will have? There's been a huge amount of investigation and analysis about each of these key junctures and I'm drawing on that analysis. You asked me about my research, and the first draft of history was really written by the journalists in the field and a lot of it contained the talking points that various powerful institutions wanted to get out there at the time - you know, that Boris Yeltsin was standing up for democracy when he called the tanks in on Parliament. But a couple decades later...
Thomas brought name recognition and start-up money, but in February the really big money was added to the lineup. Investment bank Goldman Sachs announced that it would put an undisclosed amount into Dale and Thomas to back the company's plans to roll out up to 400 additional stores over the next three years...
...course, no amount of Buddhist mantras chanted in Suu Kyi's name are likely to convince Burma's generals to give up power quietly. They have ruled with an iron grip, and with impunity, for nearly half a century, and have already brutally crushed one major democracy movement. With the clashes on Sept. 26, the regime once again displayed its capacity for violence. Burma's burgundy revolutionaries can only pray that their robes will not be stained further - by the color of blood...
...Harvard’s most under-appreciated policies. Especially when one compares Harvard to most other colleges nationwide, which typically have an add/drop period of two to three weeks—if they have one at all—one realizes that Harvard students are already allowed a considerable amount of time to explore their options. Nevertheless, a few relatively minor changes to the way the faculty and administration think about the drop/add period would allow students to take even better advantage of the flexibility it affords. Firstly, professors should plan their courses so that students are given substantive feedback...
There's also been controversy over a sandstorm test for the craft. The V-22's tendency to generate a dust storm when it lands in desert-like terrain wasn't examined because "an unusually wet spring resulted in a large amount of vegetation that prevented severe brownouts during landing attempts," the Pentagon's top tester noted. But the program continued, albeit with a caution about the aircraft's ability to fly in dusty conditions...