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That is what you call a power play. Be it a scuffle with foreign consortiums on Russian soil, or in pricing battles with Russia's neighbors, Gazprom wins very much in style of the proverbial Soviet Army steamroller: inefficient, unwieldy and mismanaged, it crushes foes by its mammoth weight and monopoly gas supply. In January 2006, for instance, when the Ukrainians balked at Gazprom's price, Medvedev turned off the taps. Pay or freeze, he told them. They paid...
...Arcadia is the location of Black Cat, a dinner jazz club, and vodka bar Red Square. From there, revelers stagger to X2, a mammoth new club in Plaza Senayan. Senayan City has Premiere, a live-music bar attached to the Senayan Studio XXI cinema. Next-day hangover cures can be easily found. The malls abound with popular chain restaurants like Waroeng Kita, or you could try Senayan City's Crystal Lagoon, a koi pond surrounded by international eateries. Staying in the Senayan bubble may not be the conventional tourist choice, but at least the only thing keeping you out late...
...execution of the yearlong project would ultimately entail the recording of twelve self-released EP’s in 2006. “It was a bigger risk than I think we realized,” says Rudder, recalling the work involved in such a mammoth task.Rice agrees: “The hardest thing was definitely making the songs. But there were other things. We always had to come up with [album] artwork. We always had to deal with the pressing plant and constantly fulfilling orders. Every month I’d spend about 20 hours hand-addressing the envelopes...
...sure the strings which control the bells can be arranged so that the bells are easier to ring, said Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck. At the first class on Tuesday, klappermeister-in-training Brian Kennedy ’09 focused on ringing the largest bell, a 13-ton mammoth nicknamed “Mother Earth.” During yesterday’s practice, Ogryzkov noticed that student Molly J. Hester ’08 used earplugs to dampen the bellowing sounds from the 700-pound clapper of “Mother Earth.” Since Ogryzkov does...
...Harvard men’s tennis team proved that emphatically this weekend, opening the Ivy League season with two mammoth victories at home over Columbia and Cornell...