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...Dealing with Putin's Russia is now a dilemma that confronts the West for at least the next four years, and more if he decides to take up his legislature's offer to extend his term limit. If Yeltsin's Russia had been an economic basket case run by a pliant buffoon, Putin's is a major and growing oil producer run by an authoritarian nationalist willing to deal with the West but on an independent and often competitive basis. Its domestic politics are likely to offend the eye for some time to come, but so does the domestic politics...
Molina is a younger, more down-to-earth, less clownish Tevye than Zero Mostel, who famously originated the role. The contrast can be seen in one line. Tevye has a recurring debate with God--"on the one hand," "on the other hand"--whenever he faces a moral dilemma. He reluctantly gives his blessing when his first daughter rejects matchmaking tradition and decides to marry the man she loves; he does the same when his second daughter gets engaged to a man who will take her away from home. But when his third daughter chooses a husband outside her religion...
...solve the food dilemma, the first focus group suggested the idea of an on-campus pub—a proposal the committee had not anticipated. The committee has agreed to look into this possibility as an option, but O’Brien has warned that this idea might not be viable...
...indissolubly connected to the external menace posed by its rulers. During the uncertain years of the Cold War, we had world-famous dissident-intellectuals such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov to remind us of this. It’s a lesson worth remembering as we ponder the awful dilemma of what to do about North Korea...
Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said he thought the council’s dilemma over funding the AACF has been caused in large part by the Committee on College Life’s (CCL) handling of the issue...