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...monastery reopened in 1988 and began negotiations with the University in December 2003 for the return of the bells. Talks stalled over the costs of sending the bells to Russia and the purchase of their replacements, which the University was unwilling to pay. Last September, however, a Russian metals mogul offered $1 million to transport the bells to Moscow and to finance their replacements. According to the Danilov Monastery’s website, the return of the bells represents “the restoration of historical truth in relation to the Russian faithful...
...Danilov monastery will respect both institutions’ histories. The original bells will be returned to Moscow, but identical replicas, forged using traditional techniques in Russia, will be sent to replace them in the Lowell’s bell tower. Viktor F. Vekselberg, a Russian metals mogul, also deserves praise for financing the deal. Thus, we applaud the multilateral efforts to protect the identity of Lowell House, while respecting that of the Russian people. In a way, seventy years later, Harvard is righting a wrong inflicted against both a faith and a people...
...Democrats, Clinton's lead has eroded since the last TIME poll. Obama has closed to within 12 points (36% to 24%), gaining seven points since January, a reflection perhaps of the dust-up over anti-Clinton comments by Hollywood mogul David Geffen, who is now supporting Obama. The African-American component of the Democrats polled appears to be evenly split between the two senators. Former Vice President Al Gore, who has not declared his candidacy, was in third place, at 13%, while former North Carolina Senator John Edwards kept a firm hold of fourth place with...
...bell makers, and a monk arrived in a new stage of the Lowell Russian bells’ long journey home. The fate of the 17 historic bells, currently on a 77-year hiatus from Moscow’s Danilovsky Monastery, was finally decided in September when a Russian metals mogul offered to pay about $1 million to bring them home and to buy a new set for Lowell. Yesterday, plastic sheeting surrounded the belfry as the Russian experts recorded the bell tones and made moldings of the bells’ intricate iconography. A Russian foundry that a Harvard delegation visited...
There's a lot of amusing interaction but not much of a plot. Eventually these wayward but well-meaning souls relocate to the impossibly sumptuous estate of a Russian mogul. You know all the while that there's a parched, nasty world out there, just waiting to correct their follies, and that the consolations of love and sex and art, which Smiley endorses all through this lovely book, won't really protect them. But our author lives up to her name in the best way. She blesses those people, shortcomings...