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Overhanging all the ferment is the shadow of the Soviet Union, which has done little to promote the troubles but tries to capitalize on any chance to lessen U.S. influence. Said Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes: "I don't believe the Soviet Union has any grand design in this arc of instability, any master plan, any timetable. All those things belong to the imagination of some editorial writers and intelligence analysts." But Simes thinks that the Soviets are so eager to damage the U.S. that they will even act against some of their own national interests...
...eager to stress its cooperative role of supplementing and bringing to fruition (rather than subverting) the offerings of the VES department. Close contact with the group's faculty advisors, Jane Foley, Assistant Studio Professor, Dimitri Hadzi, Studio Professor and John Stilgoe, Assistant professor, will serve to strengthen these ties; moreover, the group is grateful to Bakanowsky for his encouragement and suggestions...
...slighting of scientific greats by Nobel judges has been an issue practically since 1901, the first year the awards were made. In 1905, Zuckerman notes, a Nobel committee ruled against Russian Chemist Dimitri Mendeleev, nominated for his formulation of the periodic law and the table of elements. The committee reasoned that Mendeleev's 1869 work had already been widely accepted as a basic part of chemical knowledge. Thus, because the will of Dynamite Inventor Alfred Nobel limited Nobel Prizes to "recent" discoveries, Mendeleev did not qualify. A Nobel historian later called the Mendeleev decision a regrettable error. More recently...
...still thought of as a paradox that the home of the Bolshevik Revolution is much more an empire now than it was under the Czars. The sun never sets upon it. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet policy studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "A great diplomatic problem for the U.S. is that we often perceive Russia as an ideological, revolutionary state, which it is not." Beneath the vast surface of the Soviet Union, Simes argues, three elements have struggled...
...Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet Policy Studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, himself a Soviet Jew who left Russia in 1973: "A cautious effort to make the Soviet Union a more tolerant and civilized society is both moral and practical. At the same time, we have to know the limits of our power." In sum, the U.S. cannot and should not hope to change the Soviet system; such a hope or intention could only be highly dangerous. But the U.S. may, by speaking out for its own principles, make Soviet and other Communist...