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...being a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma continues to have force now that the Iron Curtain has long since been pulled back. Moscow's more muscular approach to the world has roots in its domestic politics. And there, a contradictory welter of good and bad developments contend for dominance, giving the Kremlin cause for both expansive confidence and prickly insecurity. The economy is booming. Since 1999, growth averaging more than 6% a year has produced a cumulative expansion of 65%. High oil prices are the main reason. Still, says Roderic Lyne, a former British ambassador to Moscow...
...University Development Office, and Harvard’s football games are attended exclusively by the Harvard Band. The only time that Harvard pride rears its head is the week of the Harvard-Yale football game when Harvardians break their habits and get decked out in pure crimson.While Germans contend with the ghosts of a totalitarian regime in their recent past, Harvardians suffer from the embarrassment of riches, as students at the world’s most famous university. But the fact of their sheepishness is the same; for fear of being prejudged, each conceals his affiliation to a group with...
That's generous by today's standards, but critics say it's still too little to give an elephant adequate exercise. Living in such confinement, elephants are prone to arthritis, foot problems and even premature death. Billy's head bobbing, they contend, is typical of elephants in distress and probably results from an inadequate physical environment. "I've come to the conclusion after many years that it is simply not possible for zoos to meet the needs of elephants," asserts David Hancocks, an outspoken zoo consultant and former director of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle...
...position has drawn the ire of some faculty members, who see it as unnecessarily political. “The president of Harvard does not need a spokesman,” Gordon, the history chair, says.The manpower expansion of the public relations operation may be less significant than some observers contend, however. According to Joe Wrinn, the director of the Harvard News Office, the staff of the office grew by just two positions under Summers’ tenure—from 29 to 31. That does not take into account any changes at the 11 other news offices at Harvard...
...hand of Texas hold ’em. But in the future, we’ll be pressured to channel our conceptual energies into specific and limited applications, compartmentalizing what and when we are allowed to learn. Even if we attain intellectually fulfilling careers, we will still have to contend with the unavoidable peril of adult life: that is, of thinking becoming a mere chore that we’ll want to avoid whenever we aren’t made...