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...athletes, well, you’d be right, but then you’d be missing the whole point. However, if you answered Jenny Brine and Nicole Finelli, respectively, feel free to fill out your Harvard Sports Fan Club membership.It’s rare in this highly specialized era of collegiate sports to find athletes who would be motivated enough to take up more than one sport. It’s especially difficult to find athletes who cannot only compete at such a high level, but can be integral members of their respective teams. For sophomore Niki Finelli...
Some might be willing to tolerate this tenuous alliance. In the polarized Bush era, common ground is scarce. It should be heartening, then, that ideological opposites can unite behind common causes—like more wind and solar power—even if its for contrary reasons. So what if a Hollywood director and a four-star general think differently, as long as they both drive Priuses...
...their close ties his Kremlin into vast economic empires. His tenure coincided with a precipitous decline in Russia' s GNP and in the living standards of the majority of its citizens - unlike Putin, who has been blessed by rising world oil and natural gas prices, Yeltsin ruled in an era when Russian exports did little to raise the country's strained currency reserves...
...Yeltsin oversaw the diminution of the Russian empire created by the czars and the Communists to the point that he ruled over less than half the territory governed by Peter the Great. And that imperial contraction was achieved largely without bloodshed. Yeltsin's era, then, marked the end of the Cold War and the very idea of Moscow as a strategic threat to the West. But the Russia he created proved vulnerable to a reversion to authoritarian nationalism and a cooler relationship with the West. In the end, Yeltsin will be better remembered for that dramatic moment when he jumped...
TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich asked two Muscovites from opposite ends of the social scale and with very different fortunes as a result of the Yeltsin era to give their own politial epitaphs on Russia's first post-Soviet President. The prosperous business executive and the lowly janitor had remarkably similar conclusions about Boris Yeltsin and his legacy...