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...tragic comedy. Putin’s party won the election—a run up to the presidential election to succeed Putin in title, but likely not power, next March—in a landslide. United Russia gained a projected 315 seats in the 450-seat Duma. By contrast, the Communist Party, which remains the largest opposition party will hold a paltry 57 seats. The process was even more disturbing than the lopsided results. The state-controlled media, along with the police, courts and other elements of the government machinery, ensured that the final product would fulfill Putin?...
...international treaty designed to limit emissions and pollution that cause global warming. Ironically, the United States has already signed the Kyoto Protocol (under the Clinton administration) but foregone the minor detail of actually ratifying it. The United States’ failure to ratify the Protocol is tragic in contrast with the tenor of the global warming discussion virtually everywhere else: Witness the dire climate assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize, and Prime Minster-elect of Australia Kevin Rudd’s winning campaign promise to sign the protocol...
...contrast, Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson said she keeps tabs on the race...
...contrast, his running mate Frances I. Martel ’09 relishes the spotlight. “I wish I was famous forever,” she says...
...Eastern love story as a work-in-progress to the Harvard community.CROSS-CULTURAL COMPOSITIONThe ensemble’s version truncates the original three-and-a-half-hour operatic score written for a full orchestra. While the original arrangement involved both Western and Eastern instruments, they were played separately. In contrast, this new arrangement attempts to blend the tonal qualities of Western and traditional instruments.“Our goal is to get away from this very obvious separation of roles between the Western and Azerbaijani parts,” said violinist Jonathan Gandelsman, who also arranged the version...