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Graduate students Michal Bajcsy ’01, Axel P. André and Alexander S. Zibrov conducted the study under the direction of Assistant Professor Mikhail D. Lukin, head of a Quantum Optics group in the Department of Physics...
...confederation of states than a country. Like Afghanistan, many of the leaders in regional provinces have far more authority than the government in Tbilisi and view the central authority with varying degrees of skepticism. In order to prevent terrorist activities from formenting in Georgia, the leading candidate for president, Mikhail Saakashvili, if elected should concentrate his efforts on shoring up the Tbilisi control and reducing the influence of regional leaders...
...President Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who helped to bring about the end of the Cold War as foreign minister under Mikhail S. Gorbachev before Georgia became independent in 1991, stepped down as president of Georgia under pressure from public protests over corrupt elections, opposition groups and the military...
...J.F.K. is my political idol." MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI, U.S.-educated opposition leader in Georgia who helped bring on the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze and is favored to replace...
...appearance on Russian TV last week, he warned of "clan struggles" that could plague the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, after its crucial elections on Dec. 7. Putin's nervousness is strange, because his popularity has skyrocketed to 82% since the October arrest of oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky - the Russian public loves it when a billionaire gets his comeuppance. They are delighted too by the assault on Khodorkovsky's company, Yukos - last week Sibneft, another major Russian oil firm, announced that its merger with Yukos was on hold. So why is Putin anxious? Because the Yukos affair...