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Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth - fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects. This month, both have their eye on the same thing: the plot turns inside the Russian Orthodox Church, which is weighing a successor to longtime Patriarch Alexy II, who died last month...
...surrounds all goings-on at Apple, the rumor mill always works overtime just prior to any scheduled Apple event. This year, with the recent surprise announcement that CEO Steve Jobs would not be keynoting at the annual Macworld Expo on Monday, there's even more prognostication and persiflage to cut through...
...Obama’s election is exciting to Harvard students not because of his blackness—it’s exciting because he’s their guy. An unprecedented number of Harvard students worked on Obama’s campaign, and more meaningful still, he is cut of the same cloth as they are. On the campaign trail, he was the candidate who got grief for arugula-eating. He’s the husband in a lawyers-in-love marriage, his family is considering adopting a rescue-dog, and he plays recreational basketball with his white-collar friends...
Various labor and healthcare groups have rallied to the Cambridge Health Alliance’s side in recent weeks, forming a coalition called “Put Patients First” to urge Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 to steer clear of further cuts to Medicaid. At the same time, city councillors and residents have demanded greater budgetary accountability from the CHA and expressed concerns regarding health service cuts that the alliance had made. At a December council meeting, Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons proposed an order that would have withheld the CHA?...
...Four Israeli brigades - a tank brigade and three infantry brigades reinforced by extra tanks and other armored vehicles - entered Gaza on Saturday night and have now cordoned the region into four or five sections. Gaza City is surrounded and cut off from the rest of the territory. (Read "Israel Enters Gaza: Negotiating with Extreme Prejudice...