Word: czars
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...rally. Last year, organizers had to cancel the event, and that option was considered this year as well. “To be honest, if it was raining we were going to cancel it,” said Haining Gouinlock ’07, the campus fun czar. At 7:30 p.m., students were notified by e-mail that the festivities had instead been moved to the pub. “It would have been nicer outside, but it works in here,” said Natalie I. Mazur ’11. “This shows...
From the outside, Meritanordbanken in Helsinki looks like a typical staid European bank. Merita's ornate headquarters hall, with its rose marble columns and gilded cornices, harks back to the 19th century, when the Czar of Russia still ruled Finland. But don't be fooled. Behind the historic decor, Merita has become one of the world's most advanced banks, using the Internet and mobile phones to conduct most of its business. Some 1.2 million of its customers use the Web to bank, a world record, while only 6% of the institution's transactions are processed through a traditional branch...
...plan has been endorsed by Bill Bratton, the former police commissioner of New York City under Rudy Giuliani, and current police chief of Los Angeles. It also counts the support of Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism czar under Presidents Clinton and Bush...
...doing a wonderful job but lack the rank to make strategic regional policy. The Administration was so inept in dealing with Turkey that its designated mediator, retired General Joseph Ralston, recently quit in frustration. Bush's refusal to engage the Iranians has left a clear field for Russian mini-czar Vladimir Putin to move in and build an alliance. The Secretary of State is chasing an Israeli-Palestinian chimera at a moment when a burst of high-level U.S. diplomatic pressure might actually make a difference in Iraq. There are goats and hugs...
...Moscow legend has it that the Oak Hall sheltered an influential Masonic lodge for the cream of Russian nobility. There is no doubt that it was the scene of the most spectacular Moscow high-society balls. Attending one such gathering, Czar Alexander III stumbled walking down that staircase and broke his ankle...