Word: continentality
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Nikolai Statkevich tried to buck the system in 2001: he ran for President of Belarus. The country calls itself democratic, but President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 11 years, runs it like the last dictatorship in Europe and brooks no challenges to his neo-Stalinist rule. That's why Statkevich...
For those who want to understand the course of contemporary Europe, the primary material is almost too copious and familiar; it takes a gifted historian to shape it into something fresh and coherent without sacrificing the details. A new book, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, by New York...
In December 2006, when many students will be returning home for winter break, three Harvard graduate students will embark on a rigorous climbing expedition in an effort to raise $5 million for pediatric oncology research. John S. Serafini—who is in his second year of a joint master?...
Some 900 works are on display in what John Carlin, a curator of the show, describes as "an art history of comics. When I started doing research, I felt this was a lost continent. Comics are one of the most important forms of artistic expression in America, and they were...
An alternative to baiting is now being considered in W.A., where the federal government is funding a feasibility study into building a dingo barrier fence similar to the dog fence which runs from Queensland to South Australia. Though exclusion fences are notoriously costly to maintain, federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell...