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...Sanader has vowed that the government will do "whatever it takes" to uproot organized crime, and on Tuesday, Ivan Simonovic, Croatia's newly appointed Justice Minister, announced a series of measures aimed at curbing organized crime. These include new legislation to allow criminals' property to be confiscated, as well as the establishment of a new police agency, modeled on America's Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the new measures still need to be approved by the parliament, and it will be months before they take effect...
...Harvard-Yale Game two years ago in Cambridge than at either of the home games he has attended at Yale. He blamed this discrepancy on Harvard’s administrative culture, which he described as “less understanding of student needs.” Yale sophomore Ivan Soares, a Massachusetts native, said he thinks that Boston is more active in Harvard affairs than New Haven is in those of Yale. “We’re more in a Yale bubble,” he said. Soares added that a sense of trust exists between...
...reports were "a nasty and incomprehensible surprise" - not least because the accused spy was nearly sentenced to death - but that it would not alter his views of the writer's work. "Everything that the writer lives through can somehow reflect in his work," wrote Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima, a contemporary of Kundera's in a Czech newspaper. "Perhaps only a subconscious need to come to terms with [an experience] can ignite the creation of great work. That is a paradox of creation and, in effect, of life itself." Speaking to TIME, Klima added, however, that while "any piece...
Russian novelist and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died last month at the age of 89. A celebrated author, his series of novels—including his most renowned, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”—meticulously documented the monstrous crimes of Stalin’s regime and eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The effusive stream of eulogies that poured in from across the world and the political spectrum might lead us to think that Solzhenitsyn ranks with George Orwell as one of the century?...
This realignment of priorities extends beyond politics. Andrew Feldman, a university friend of Cameron's and now chief executive of the party, recalls that "last year, when the polls were against David, I commiserated with him. But David was completely upbeat. Ivan had lost the ability to smile, and now they'd changed the medication, and he'd got his smile back. That was what mattered...