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...when pass blocking for Giardi, but, when it came time to run, seemed to fall asleep. Even when they did open holes, however, the running backs failed to either hit them or hit them with force. Unlike in the Lafayette game, the backs seemed to take it east-west, rather than north-south, leading to a number of big-yard losses...
After I prodded and lobbied Harvard for more than two years, signs finally appeared. These are knee-high and parallel to the direction of pedestrian traffic. Though an improvement on no signs, they are so unobtrusive that they are hard to find and give scant direction to visitors on east-west routes...
...years, Canada sheltered its national identity behind tariff walls, most of which are gradually being ratchetted down to zero under the trade treaty. One consequence, TIME's panelists agreed, is that the country's economy is rapidly reorienting itself north-south rather than along the historical east-west lines from British Columbia to Newfoundland. Provincial jurisdictions that regulate everything from natural-resource extraction to pollution to stock-market rules are following suit. The outcome is a thickening network of business and government ties between separate parts of Canada and their neighboring U.S. states, which will result in complex transnational regions...
...great East-West debate does not really trouble the average Russian much. He thinks such questions are the proper concern of the intelligentsia, a cultural elite that is a unique feature of Russian society. Few other countries have accorded their writers, scientists, artists and poets so much honor and prestige. Such confidence has not always been justified: Russian intellectuals may like to view themselves as social oracles, but they have never been particularly good at predicting the future. Many of the intelligentsia who welcomed the 1917 Revolution became its first victims in the cellars of Lubyanka prison. Today they face...
Even more problematic is the wide rift between the industrialized and the developing nations. This dispute had been lurking under the more visible East-West division. With the end of the Cold War, it has emerged as the biggest single problem facing...