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Over the past several decades, the Russian government has made dangerous incursions into Georgian affairs in an effort to keep the central government weak so that it can exert its own leverage, both economically and militarily. Moscow has effectively prevented fomer president Shevardnadze from unifying the country by granting Russian citizenship to entire Georgian states on their shared border; and has been known to cut off the nation’s gas supplies in the middle of winter for political reasons when Shevardnadze did not cooperate. And if the economic pressure didn’t get the message across...
...lunch last year with another fomer vice president, Walter F. Mondale, a few students felt that it was appropriate to turn up, albeit 50 minutes late, in exercise clothes as “they had just come from the Mac.” That Harvard students should feel comfortable sandwiching—if you’ll pardon the pun—such a lunch between a workout and a section is a sign of how spoiled...
...freshman also made waves earlier this season when she won the Harvard Invitational. Bergman defeated fellow teammate and fomer No. 1 Sanja Bajin to win her first collegiate tournament...
Established earlier this year, the ACS has already recruited legal and political heavyweights to its board, including former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, fomer U.S. Solicitor General Drew Days, and Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler professor of constitutional...
...Russia after 19th-century wars. During World War II, Stalin was suspicious of their loyalty, and deported almost the entire nation to Central Asia in cattle trucks, a journey which perhaps a third of them did not survive. Unsurprisingly, they declared themselves independent as many minorities in the fomer U.S.S.R. did, starting the first Chechen war, from which they emerged with a limited form of autonomy...