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...marks a rapid acceleration of the pragmatism that has been steadily influencing French policy toward Moscow and that it's a signal that Paris is ready to interact with Russia without the usual qualifiers. Gone are Sarkozy's early promises to make a respect of human rights and democracy central to all French foreign relations. Also gone is Sarkozy's former mocking of realpolitik as a political cop-out of cynical diplomats without principles. France is now eager to work with Russia on common security and economic interests - and it doesn't want to hear any sniping or criticism from...
Harvard’s house system is often cited as one of the best parts of our social life, enabling students to get to know a small cross-section of the large undergraduate population. The dining hall is a central place in any house’s life, especially at meal times, so conveniently located river houses have been trying for years to keep outsiders out, resorting to gongs, no-pants dinners, and the more conventional inter-house dining restrictions. However, if dining restrictions were made with the realities of the lives of Harvard students in mind, they could...
This production will also be making some adaptations to the set design from the original script, presenting the play on a tiered set to emphasize the familial divisions that define the show’s central conflict. The audience will be seated on three sides of the stage, creating a more intimate setting. “I really want it to feel very immediate to people because these are very immediate and personal issues,” Feldman says...
...throughout the region, the results of Iraq's elections have been less than edifying. The politicians who came to power after the country's first parliamentary elections four years ago have been unable to resolve such core issues as sharing oil revenue, balancing power between the regions and the central government, and national reconciliation...
...evaluation of the system. "There will be a moment in the future when we must evaluate [how our warning system functioned] in detail," she said. "We have a navy [measurement] system that has 19 installations along the coast. The information in the beginning was not exactly from the central point where the epicenter hit. It was thought in the beginning that the epicenter was down in the earth, not in the sea." (See pictures of the earthquake in Chile...