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...chatty brainiac-megalomaniacs whose compulsion to explain exactly how they were going to kill Bond (and take over the world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless. Issuing dreadful warnings, plotting mass destruction from remote redoubts and sending their thugs to do the dirty work, the Scaramangas and Ernst Stavro Blofelds of Bond fiction could have been the secular antecedents of Osama...
...just never clicked together when on the road.“We didn’t have the experience, and we didn’t have the chemistry to pull out road wins,” Lin says. “But I think now we are a lot closer, a lot more experienced, and a lot more resilient. So I definitely think we won’t be having that problem this year.”The Crimson never settled into a comfort zone while away from home, possibly because it was not too comfortable at home either. Harvard?...
...unlikely to go to the heads of the seniors, as before their freshmen campaign, the team—with another talented senior class—was picked to finish second in the league. Harvard rewarded those expectations with eight straight league losses in February and March to finish closer to the bottom than...
...keep Russia from arming countries like Venezuela or Iran and threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. The price will be hefty, including perhaps a renegotiation of Bush’s precious missile defense shield, but the rewards are worth it: Bringing Russia into closer relations with the U.S. has the potential to further democratic elements within Moscow’s sphere of power, weakening the autocratic elites who dream of Tsarist empires...
...Chen's arrest comes at a sensitive political moment in Taiwan. A top Chinese envoy came to Taiwan last week to sign landmark trade pacts, a historic visit that was marred by violent protests from opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters who are wary of any moves to draw closer to China. Over a hundred people were injured in five days of chaos...