Word: georgians
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...ambitious plans for an expanded campus into a modern, eight-story high-rise reality.AVANT-GARDE OR ARTISTIC MISHAP?As the first undergraduate residence to be built after the original seven river Houses of the early 1930s under President Lowell, in 1959 Quincy represented a new Harvard, breaking with the Georgian-modeled House system. The current site of Quincy House was formerly occupied by a psychological clinic, Mather Hall—a part of Leverett House—and a row of houses on DeWolfe Street, according to a 1957 Crimson report. And a report published in the next year...
...TIME's package on the Russia-Georgian...
...timing and the location of the exercises, which are being held not even a year after the conflict on Georgian territory, justifies, to some extent, Russia’s suspicion that these exercises are a show of NATO solidarity with Georgia against Russia. Since Russia is the only power Georgia has gone to war with recently, Moscow might fairly assume that NATO exercises taking place on Georgian soil are designed to train soldiers for another possible conflict with Russia. If NATO does not intend for Russia to draw this conclusion, then it would be prudent for NATO to cease...
...There is also, perhaps, some truth to the statement by Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian envoy to NATO, that NATO would be wiser to hold the exercises “in some psychiatric hospital” than in Georgia, given the current state of affairs. Protests calling for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign have rocked Tbilisi, for the past month, and the ranks of the protestors have grown to encompass members of the government. One of these, a former parliamentary speaker, even declared to a crowd of protestors that Georgia “is not a democratic country...
...Some in the opposition believe Saakashvili may use the mutiny as an excuse to mobilize the military against demonstrators. "It is possible the authorities might use the incident with the military unit in Mukhrovani to quell the rallies in Tbilisi," said Mamuka Katsitadze, an opposition leader, although the Georgian leadership may be wary of igniting Western opposition given its precarious position...