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There's a celebrated scene in dostoyevsky's classic novel The Gambler in which a wealthy, 75-year-old Russian grandmother takes a seat in a casino and watches a young man pile up his winnings at the roulette table. After a few minutes, she nudges the narrator, and instructs...
In the wake of the meltdown of the stock market in Moscow this month, there are quite a few Russians who probably wish they had heeded that sort of advice. For after partying through several years of heady growth, much of it financed by borrowing from abroad, the nation's...
But even if Zuma (pictured above) succeeds in providing stability while fulfilling promises to his leftist supporters, the status of the African National Congress (ANC) party, once the continent's most respected organ of national liberation, has been irreversibly diminished by the infighting of the past few years. Under Nelson...
It seemed as though the Harvard men’s hockey team had finally solved the goalie question—for the next two years, anyway.After struggling to find a permanent starting goaltender throughout the 2006-07 season, the Crimson finally landed on then-freshman Kyle Richter to take the...
Barnes & Noble owners around the country must be suffering from sensory overload. Each week, they open a new shipment to find political hardbacks positively yelling at them. “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” “The Prosecution of...