Word: georgis
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...signs that the Iran-contra affair could indeed affect superpower relations. Coming on top of Reagan's decision to violate the unratified SALT II arms treaty, the scandal has evidently prompted the Kremlin to allow Soviet commentators to attack Reagan personally, something that was avoided in the recent past. Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, called the scandal "a truly cinematic story out of second-rate Hollywood films, in which Ronald Reagan has been featured for years...
...interest in horses remained latent throughout boarding school and most of college. One day during her undergraduate years, the opportunity to ride again came when she confessed her love for horses—and not classical mechanics—to her undergraduate adviser, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’67.“That was definitely a surprise,” says Georgi, who is also the master of Leverett House. “Nobody grows up wanting to be a blacksmith, except sons and daughters of blacksmiths.”Georgi’s wife...
Exactly how or why the dose was administered, and by whom, remains a mystery. The Litvinenko case revived memories of perhaps the most notorious assassination carried out during the cold war, the 1978 murder in London of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident who was working for the bbc. He was killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella while waiting for a bus, in a case that has never been solved. Just as in that Markov case, the death of Litvinenko has already given rise to a flurry of conspiracy theories, including speculation among defenders of Putin's government that the poisoning...
...Litvinenko case revived memories of perhaps the most notorious assassination carried out during the cold war, the 1978 murder in London of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident who was working for the BBC. He was killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella while waiting for a bus, in a case that has never been solved. Just like the Markov murder, the death of Litvinenko has already given rise to a flurry of conspiracy theories, including speculation among defenders of the government that the poisoning was arranged by Russian migrs or Western intelligence agencies to discredit Moscow. But for many...
...HUDS budget should not be separate from the academic budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,” Georgi said...