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...professor calling the integrity of the test “severely compromised,” when it was learned that some students in the course had brought already-completed answers to several of the questions on the exam. These accusations prompted the course head, Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, to make the final exam count less towards the students’ final grades. The exam in Physics 153, “Electrodynamics,” allowed students to use their course notes and textbooks. According to a student in the course, Elizabeth R. Shope...
Countless baseballs bear DiMaggio's signature. Rarer is this ball signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 and cherished by DiMaggio as "the only two autographs I ever sought...
...three years, and few Russians yet own one. But stores have increasingly begun offering loan terms to customers. Offering credit was pioneered by M.Video, an electronics and electrical equipment chain, and has quickly been adopted by others. M.Video now has 62 stores in 16 different regions of Russia and Mikhail Kuchment, the commercial director, says the plan is to open 20 more in 2006 and hit the 100 mark by the end of 2007. About 25% of M.Video's sales are credit financed. "A majority of customers in big cities already have basic products such as TVs and fridges...
...Gorby Talks Considering the debt that millions of people owe Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10] for his unique and enormous contributions to peace, it is unconscionable that he is living on a government pension of about $1,400 a month. We should create a special fund for him. For a start, I will gladly contribute half my pension. Cedric Vendyback Kelowna, Canada...
...about the presidential ambitions of Frist, Clinton and McCain brought to mind a quip attributed to Gore Vidal: "Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." David R. Thiessen Woodstock, Illinois, U.S. Gorby Talks Re your interview with Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10]: Gorbachev was one of the most influential leaders for peace in the 20th century. Although taking the path of peace did not make him a revered figure in Russia, he laid a real foundation for his country to become a dominant economic force in the world. Americans...