Word: landmarks
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...Playwright Mikhail Shatrov, 58, says that the actual words were more restrained but that Gorbachev openly drew parallels between Lenin's reluctant peace with imperial Germany and his own reform and retrenchment. Thus the staging of Shatrov's text became a political as well as an artistic event, a landmark of changing times. And of countless cultural exchanges between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in recent years, none has had greater symbolic significance than the play's current run in Chicago, in the original production starring Ulyanov. (The play is performed in Russian with simultaneous English translation delivered via headphones...
Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Mass. Aeneas Holdings and Phemus gave the developer a $20 million loan. In exchange, Harvard acquired an interest in the land beneath the posh city landmark...
...candidate also voiced strong support for the state's landmark universal health-care system, saying she wanted to ensure that senior citizens do not have to "worry about being impoverished in order to get medical care, and don't have to choose between food bills and medical bills...
Current occupants of the building include the landmark Brattle Theater, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, and the Algiers Coffee House, a popular meeting place for students and city residents...
EVER since the Supreme Court's landmark decision on abortion rights last summer, the abortion battlefield has switched from the national to the state and local levels. Although President Bush can breathe a sigh of relief after avoiding yet another major political decision, governors and state legislators aren't so lucky. They must deal with a political landmine that was hidden for more than 15 years...