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...Russia, Vladimir Putin knows the pact well. Putin has long argued that economic success and social order must come before openness and plurality. Many Russians I know - friends from the early 1990s when we all watched, spellbound, the brief flowering of democracy - have come to agree with him. When I quit as editor of a British political magazine, one Russian friend phoned to declare how happy she was that I would now start doing something worthwhile with my life, like making money. Russians, Chinese and others utter a single word when such a viewpoint is challenged: Gorbachev. Remember, they...
...from 1993 to 2001 - the portrait of the relationship between Bill Clinton, a man who never knew his own father, and his daughter reveals a side we rarely saw on the public stage. Bill Clinton, it turns out, raised a daughter and ran the free world, sometimes in that order...
...middle-income working moms and dads, for instance, researchers at Cornell University found that only 40% of mothers said they had time to cook a meal at home five or more days a week. More than half the parents in the survey admitted that in order to accommodate their work hours, they ate in the car, opted for quick-fix solutions like frozen dinners, bought take-out meals on the way home or skipped meals instead of cooking. Some chose not to clock out--and give up wages--for a meal break. "There are some people for whom the structure...
After each presentation the winners answered both serious and silly questions from the audience. “How much tequila do I have to give to my boyfriend in order to receive a diamond?” one audience member asked Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the winners of the Chemistry prize who had discovered how to convert tequila into diamonds...
When I wake up every Tuesday and Thursday in order to audit, I’m reminded of why I came to college in the first place. Watching a brilliant professor do his thang—without the pressure of assigned readings, or section discussions, or grades—actually allows me to listen. I’m not tempted to check Gmail; in fact, I don’t even bring my computer. I’m there because I want to be. In an ideal world, of course, the same would apply to college as a whole...