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Every August, Nikolai Gusev juices hundreds of unwashed apples which grow at his dacha, west of Moscow. For a month he waits patiently for the juice to ferment and turn into a wine. He then distills the mixture, and stores the remaining liquid in a barrel for several months. The result is a highly potent drink (45% alcoholic), with an apple aftertaste which is the favorite tipple of his friends. "I had too many apples at my dacha and instead of throwing them away I wanted to do something with them, for me making moonshine is just a little...
...touchdown, shriveling the lead to three in the space of 2:04.Harvard responded almost immediately with its most complete drive of the game, moving 67 yards in five plays and capping it off with a 2-yard touchdown strike from senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti to junior tight end Nikolai Schwartzkopf, Pizzotti’s second touchdown pass of an otherwise statistically down game (16-for-23, 156 yards). The highlight of the drive was a 42-yard strike from Pizzotti to junior wideout Matt Luft, the second-longest play of the day for the Crimson.Penn countered once again, moving...
...Pizzotti hits Nikolai Schwartzkopf for the two-yard touchdown pass. Long's extra point is good. 5 plays for 67 yards, 1:50 time of possession. HARVARD 24, PENN...
...Penn's defense is getting to Pizzotti pretty easily, but he gets the pass off to Nikolai Schwartzkopf and gets a roughing the passer call. Half the distance to the goal, Harvard has the first down at the Penn...
Russia's two gravest ills, according to the celebrated 19th century writer Nikolai Gogol, were its fools and its roads. And even though the overall population of contemporary Russia continues to shrink by more than half a million people a year, fools appear to multiply as profusely as ever. Perhaps that's why whenever national elections are held, the polling station nearest my dacha (country house) is the local loony bin. As for the roads, each 40-mile drive here from Moscow confirms my suspicion that roads were in much better shape in Gogol's time. Today, they look...