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...These days more than ever, Europeans seem to harbor immense suspicion, if not disdain, toward the U.S. As former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev put it recently in the Washington Post, "The world doesn't want to be American." Indeed, here in Europe, many citizens tremble at the very thought. Why? Aside, of course, from the facile and one-dimensional explanation of jealousy, isn't the rest of the free and not-so-free world bursting at the seams to be like the citizens of the country that brought us life, liberty and-that anthem of the modern age-the pursuit...
Note to the Nobel Peace Prize committee: Can you pick someone besides me this year? The honor (and the million-dollar prize) would be nice, but anyone you tap needs to watch his back. Mikhail Gorbachev won in 1990 and was tossed into oblivion in 1991. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were honored in 1973 for negotiating to end the Vietnam War - which didn't end until 1975, on terms hardly flattering to Kissinger. Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat were the winners in 1994; Rabin was assassinated, Arafat is embattled, and peace in the Middle East...
...pharmaceutical corporations insist that scientific innovation cannot occur in the absence of a profit motive. And given the experience of socialism, it's a fair challenge. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe was in the final analysis a product of its stagnation. The absence of a market mechanism, Mikhail Gorbachev argued in his book "Perestroika," meant that planned economies were fundamentally lacking an engine for economic innovation, and were therefore doomed to stagnation...
Phillips worked with the team led by Associates of the Harvard College Observatory Ronald L. Walsworth and Mikhail D. Lukin. Their paper will be published in Physical Review Letters. Another group, led by Associate of the Department of Physics Lene V. Hau, is publishing a similar study next week in Nature...
...Acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals... Mikhail Baryshnikov called them 'the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever...