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...Dean-elect of the Institute, Drew Gilpin Faust, attended the lecture, as did Mary Maples Dunn, acting dean of the Institute, Harvey V. Fineberg '67, provost of the University, and Linda S. Wilson, former president of Radcliffe College...
Russian President-elect VLADIMIR PUTIN wants no part of a missile shield, and has told Washington that Moscow won't begin abiding by the START II treaty until the Senate approves those side agreements. "The Administration now finds itself caught between a Russian rock and the right wing," says Joseph Cirincione, director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project. Clinton may face the embarrassing spectacle of the Senate's sinking an arms-control treaty it has already ratified...
Every other week, for as many as one hundred days, the roommates will meet to secretly elect two people as candidates for dismissal from the group. Then, the audience will choose which of the two they no longer want to see via a telephone poll. The last person remaining wins...
President-elect Vladimir Putin may have convinced Russia's lawmakers that there's a new sheriff in town, but that isn't giving those accused of corruption much cause for alarm. Putin on Wednesday succeeded where President Boris Yeltsin had twice failed - by getting Russia's upper chamber of parliament to dismiss general prosecutor Yuri Skuratov, Moscow's equivalent of the attorney general. But getting rid of Skuratov, who had refused to back down on an investigation into corruption inside the Kremlin - and then was publicly humiliated by a video showing him in bed with prostitutes - may be a sign...
...Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin wants no part of a missile shield, and has told Washington that Moscow won't begin abiding by the Start II treaty until the Senate approves those side agreements. "The administration now finds itself caught between a Russian rock and the right wing," says Joseph Cirincione, director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project. Clinton may face the embarrassing spectacle of having the Senate sink an arms-control treaty it has already ratified...