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...unidentified substance, but his family, friends and colleagues in the liberal Yabloko Party demand an international investigation. Terror attacks against Russian civilians could hurt Putin in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December and the presidential elections next year. But he could also use the crisis to cement his hold on power; it was the 1999 wave of apartment bombings that helped propel him into office in the first place. "Bombings and elections go together in Moscow," noted an editorial in the English-language Moscow Times. "At the Kremlin they believe that Russians will learn to live with these...
Harvard is a place in which the motto veritas is strewn upon banners, etched within century-old cement and placed upon all hall corridors. The search for veritas is of utmost importance and cannot and should not be relegated to a subordinate position. But the question that exists is whose veritas is heard and acknowledged? Harvard, of all academic institutions, has a responsibility and an intellectual obligation to adhere to this timeless motto that inspires and seduces so many enthusiastic minds...
...creeping liberalization. Young Internet surfers have inundated chat rooms with a new slogan: "Keep it up, Brother Hu." The message echoed calls nearly two decades earlier when students championed the newly promoted reformist leader Deng Xiaoping by chanting en masse, "Hello, Xiaoping." The support of politically active youth helped cement Deng's authority, and students today hope to do the same for Hu. "We need to show our support for Hu Jintao, because if he becomes weak, the Old Guard could reassert their power," says Kitty Wang, a student at Shanghai's Jiaotong University, former President Jiang Zemin's alma...
Still, it took a fateful bad hair day and an unclaimed Red Sox hat hanging in the Crimson newsroom to truly cement my conversion to the Red Sox faith. I put the hat on, announcing to any of its potential owners on the Crimson list-serve that it was only because of a bad case of the frizzies, not Red Sox love, that I would be forced to wear the colors of this godforsaken team...
This cultural background, Gioia says, informs his sense of personal identity—a sense that his time at Harvard helped to cement...