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...economy. And you're supposed to be a functioning democracy too. So when Vladimir Putin opens this year's G-8 summit next weekend at the sumptuous Palace of Congresses overlooking the sea 15 km from St. Petersburg, the famously stone-faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will be in charge of a gathering to which, by any objective measure, he should not have been invited. Even now a small army of diplomats is buttoning up the communiqués that will record a bland consensus...
...perhaps it’s not such a big deal. Maybe Albany is just another mid-major school experiencing its brief flicker of recognition before getting blasted into oblivion by the big guns in the NCAA tourney. Albany received no respect from the tournament selection committee, drawing a No. 16 seed in the Washington, D.C., regional and a date with No. 1 seed UConn on Friday.The Huskies are the 5-2 favorite to go all the way, so it’s virtually assured the Great Danes will have faded from most basketball fans’ consciousness by halftime...
...Casablancas took the center spotlight in the soft “Ask Me Anything,” while the rest of the band exited the stage. The blue glow that cast across the audience from dozens of cell phones was a fitting post-millennial substitute for the yellow-orange flicker of lighters of the bygone 1990s. Yet soon enough, emotions pushed to fever pitch with the performance of “Ize of the World,” one of the strongest tracks from the new album. The guitarists unleashed, twisting and jumping as Casablancas nailed the impossibly high vocal...
...their blacks, whites and reds, borrowed from the uniform of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, are also the colors that recur in carvings of coastal native peoples, especially the Haida. In the flash of an eye, tribal palette becomes team colors and vice versa. Native tribes and sports tribes flicker back and forth in the same slightly comic, slightly menacing face...
...intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was- too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune- and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing told them it?s about three times further from its star than we are from the sun. Its surface temperature is probably below ?360 degrees F, much too frigid to sustain life...