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JUDGMENT CALL Cremations are becoming more popular, but how many people really want their loved ones launched into orbit...
...distance is a divide that grows in our identities. We value different ideas, different places and different people. By junior year, we are firmly rooted in Harvard community--admittedly an amorphous concept, but the Houses, extracurricular organizations and friends form our spheres of orbit. The time at the Institute of Politics, Holworthy's basement or the Murr Center becomes as much a part of us as anything else. While I once identified myself as a Southern girl, now my family tells my I talk funny (i.e. Northern). And while I harassed my Uncle Louis for yet another silly story...
Congressional investigators also want to talk to Beth Dozoretz, the Democratic fund raiser involved as a kind of legal midwife in the Rich pardon. A close friend of Rich's ex-wife Denise, Dozoretz brought Rich into Clinton's political orbit, brokering a $450,000 donation to his presidential library and what sources say was hundreds of thousands to the Democrats. No one knew of Dozoretz's link to the pardon until Rich's lawyers released an e-mail last month describing a Jan. 10 phone call she had had with Clinton in which he said he wanted to grant...
...Vinogradov, at the height of his orbit, was ferried around Moscow in an armored convoy. His movements resembled military maneuvers. No more. He was spotted recently on a main Moscow thoroughfare-on foot and alone. Malevich lovers, at home and abroad, now worry that the same fate-obscurity-awaits the most alluring gems of the fallen oligarch's treasure trove...
...Both sides are playing down the significance of this transfer of power. The symbolism could be painful for the Russians. With Mir scheduled to de-orbit in March, the nation that has always led the world in long-duration space flight may now take a backseat to a "partner" that was once its bitter rival. The ISS blueprint calls for more Russian segments to arrive, including a power station and science lab of their own. But while most of the U.S. components are complete and waiting to be launched, and European and Japanese segments are at least funded, the Russians...