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Sure, sure, Boston is no Moscow, but what do ya say, Harvard? Could this be the perfect remedy for the seemingly campus-wide epidemic that is our love-hate relationship with snow? With Cambridge getting its first dousing of the white stuff on Sunday–the third earliest date of measurable accumulation according to National Weather Service (October 10, 1979 takes the cake)–we asked students whether they welcomed the sign of an early winter with delight or vexation. Find out what they had to say after the jump...
...responding to Moscow mayor’s innovative strategy, the overwhelming majority of students gave a thumbs-down to the idea, wishing to spare Boston skies of the misty chemical assault...
...Harvard was not the only elite institution to fall victim to the forgery. According to the RIA release, fake diplomas for the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics—a prestigious Moscow-based public research university—have also been discovered, selling at a rate of 300,000 rubles...
...started all this." The dilemma may sound familiar as the Obama Administration weighs General Stanley McChrystal's request for 40,000 more troops, but the quote comes from Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party, during a debate that raged in the Kremlin during 1986 and 1987. Moscow was grappling with some of the same issues eight years after the Red Army invaded Afghanistan that President Obama today faces, eight years after U.S. troops went in. And eavesdropping, retrospectively, on the Soviet debate on Afghanistan offers some uncomfortable parallels. (See TIME's photo-essay "Between Duty and Downtime...
...indiscriminate use of air power," Gates wrote in his 1996 autobiography. But it failed to turn the tide. So in February 1988, Gorbachev finally threw in the towel. But at least he could console himself with the belief that the vacuum created by withdrawing would not be filled by Moscow's key adversary. "The U.S.A.," Gorbachev told his Politburo colleagues, "is not going to send in its armed forces if we leave...