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...Farthest, Brightest, Most Powerful: The Emerging View of Quasars--Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Night by Belinda Wilkes, Center for Astrophysics. Lecture, short film or video, and telescopic observing from the observatory roof. Limited seating. Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Program starts...
...decades the Kremlin kept all air and rail transport in the U.S.S.R. on "Moscow time." Trains and planes arrived in and departed from the farthest reaches of an empire that sprawled over 11 time zones as if everything took place in the capital. Last week decommunized Moscow moved its clocks ahead one hour in a bid to save energy, but the other republics refused to follow. Result: mass confusion...
This atavistic trend is a direct result of the Soviet capitulation in the cold war. The core of communism was a strong center: it was from there that the orders and the troops came. A single ruler could intimidate or punish the farthest corner of his domain. The Yugoslavs used to say, "We have six republics, five ethnic groups, four languages, three religions, two alphabets -- and one Tito." Now that there is no Tito, things fall apart; the center cannot hold...
...scared that I wouldn't be able to walk again. Hockey was the farthest thing from my mind at the time, when [Harvard Coach] Ronn [Tomassoni] and Teddy Donato and Scott Barringer carried me up to UHS. For 20 days, I needed valium and was lying here in pain. After 20 days, I was in pain but functional. We finally made the decision for surgery the night of the first Beanpot game...
...Bakr retired in 1979, and that left Saddam completely in charge. He celebrated by ordering the execution of 21 Cabinet members, including one of his closest comrades, on dubious charges of treason. "He who is closest to me is farthest from me when he does wrong," said Saddam...