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...even a spectacle like that could blind viewers to the controversies, which at times seemed louder than the songs. In March, Eurovision officials formally disinvited Georgia from participating because its entry, "We Don't Want to Put In," seemed to mock Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the wake of the conflict in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. On May 15, the chief of the Russian jury withdrew after he was spotted enjoying a caviar lunch with eventual winner Rybak in Moscow, potentially compromising his impartiality. (Read "Eurovision in Russia: Politics and Pop Music...
Recession's Long March Re your cover "Going Home" [April 27]: as a former illegal worker in the U.S., I found your article on immigration compelling. It is true we are living in difficult times, but we must avoid seeking scapegoats during the economic crisis. In the end the only thing that will get us out of this mess is to pull together legal and illegal, foreign worker and local. Where do you think these deported immigrants will find jobs back home? In Mexico, perhaps with the drug cartels south of the border. Or why not with outfits like...
...navigating this year’s tumultuous and markedly changed financial landscape. University officials say they have been planning for a total 30 percent drop in the endowment by the end of the current fiscal year.Despite an increase in public equity holdings to almost $772 million by March 31, up from $571 million in the previous quarter, the University has still dramatically reduced its publicly traded equities portfolio, which was valued at almost $2.9 billion as late as last September. Harvard appears to have redirected many of its investments after those sales, with the number of reported holding entries increasing...
...remind young people of our glorious history, history that is being forgotten," says Alexander Laveikin, a deputy director of the museum and one of the first cosmonauts to have lived aboard the Mir space station. Besides serving as a memorial to the past, the museum, which reopened in March, is also part of a government effort to get young Russians interested in science and technology. "If five or 10 years ago, everyone wanted to be in business, now they are interested in technology - and our museum is playing a big part in that," says Laveikin. "After the financial crisis ends...
...Mars - Russia's government has done more than just revamp its space museum. In 2007, it founded Rosnanotekh, the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation; last year, the government announced tentative plans to abandon its current space base in Kazakhstan and build a new one in the Russian far east; and in March, it launched an effort to design a new moon rocket. (See pictures of animals in space...