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...Western democracy. Plagued by disunity, backstabbing and factional feuds, Zajedno's concatenation of conflicting groups could barely agree on who was in charge, much less what policies to pursue. Now the huge rallies have given them at least a physical pursuit, even if a unifying philosophy is still a distant dream...
...addition to his examination of the early life of the universe, Loeb studies gravitational lensing, a technique that offers astronomers crisp pictures of distant structures using light bent around the sun and other cosmic bodies close to the earth...
...career, Hu finishes with 3,073 yards in 29 games, an average of 106 yards per game. The Ivy League record is a distant 4,200 or so, however...
Boris Yeltsin is resting easy after his recent heart bypass surgery. But what if his rest verged on eternal, and Russia veered toward a political coup? Investors with all their money stashed in U.S. stocks wouldn't have to worry much. The echo of political turmoil in distant markets might be barely audible when Wall Street is roaring like Niagara Falls. But for those invested overseas--through mutual funds or directly, in stocks--the noise would be more like a foghorn in their bedroom. The clamor of social, political and economic uncertainty just might send prices cascading lower...
...seems quite distant at the moment, not only from Cambridge--there hasn't been fighting here since George Washington massed his troops on the Commons more than 200 years ago--but from America at least our America. Our, elite America hasn't been fighting for quite a while. Military men and women among us today appear anomalous. Veterans seem somehow alien, if we conceive of them as living; more often, though, we think of them as dead...