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...They’re not interested in me, they’re interested in Harvard. I learned a lesson from [Liu],” Tang says. “It seems highly possible that her climax of life stopped when she published that book. I really don’t want my climax of life to stop when I get into Harvard. It?...
...year of Litvinenko’s birth, the Cold War reached its climax. JFK and Krushchev came very close to igniting a nuclear Apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a couple of months before Alexander was born in a remote Russian village. After making a good impression with the intelligentsia at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he moved up in Soviet bureaucracy. In 1988, as dissent became pronounced all throughout Eastern Europe, Litvinenko joined the infamous KGB, the counter-intelligence agency and symbol of Soviet realpolitick in the West...
...this abandonment of documentary principles that makes it so appealing. The spatter and strew of the grasses is absorbing and positively disorienting, a visual compliment to the boys’ joyful ecstasy and a testament to Rockefeller’s artistic acuity.Sadly, the exhibit fizzles before its narrative climax. Here, at the beginning of the war scenes, Rockefeller distances himself physically and psychologically from his subjects, and the resulting photographs suffer.Rockefeller’s photography becomes more obvious, less idiosyncratic, and less captivating overall. Whereas Rockefeller appeared comfortable with the daily life of the Dani, his images...
...Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to stop the sectarian warfare, according to Bush's own national security adviser. Al-Maliki is beholden to arch-sectarian Moqtada al-Sadr, who this week showed his clout by ordering his minions out of the fragile coalition government. And if the climax of this cliffhanger was supposed to be former Secretary of State James Baker leading the cavalry to the rescue, the reports of his group's conclusions are not exactly reassuring. There is a sense of profound foreboding in Washington that events in Iraq have spiraled downward beyond anyone's control...
...climax of the grueling month will come in the final game, the next chapter in the Harvard-Dartmouth hockey rivalry, traditionally the best-attended and most fiercely-contested set-to in the women’s ranks. A year ago, the Crimson ran away with the December meeting between the two teams, but then dropped the second contest to split the season series...