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...Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the London-based Centre for European Reform, says Russia is simply flexing its muscles. "Russia's main objective at the moment is to establish itself as a great power, to gain the respect of its international peers," she says. The country's new confidence is founded on its oil and gas reserves, which it has used for political leverage. "There's been a lot of pressure on governments to go soft on Russia because it's seen as an important new economic player," says Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe Minister from 2002-05. And Western...
...liners designed to titillate a white audience suddenly attuned to the black outrage they had never before heard. That, however, was not Petey. And he knew it. He could talk fast, all right, but he was at heart a free-associating yarn spinner, a man who had to establish his own rhythms, not live by those of other people. He was never going to be Richard Pryor. Or Nipsey Russell...
...matter what the ship eventually reveals about Vesta and Ceres, NASA believes a successful mission could help establish ion technology as the propulsion system of choice for any mission in which the need for fuel is high and the need for speed is low. "Because of ion propulsion," says Rayman, "Dawn can explore the last unexplored worlds in the solar system." Not bad on a single small tank...
Though administrators have yet to establish a dollar figure goal for the proposed campaign, they expect it to exceed the last capital drive, which raised $2.6 billion when it ended in 1999. A similar seven-year campaign launched this year would raise close to $4.4 billion, assuming a higher-education inflation rate of 3.5 percent...
...featuring the stylized samurai that have become his trademark. He feels a kinship to their uncompromising independence. "[Famed samurai] Musashi Miyamoto learned his skill on his own, and beat everyone," he says. "I feel similar. Instead of learning from someone else, I think it's better that I just establish myself...