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...Cozying up to America poses risks for Putin. His embrace of the West has critics in the military and elsewhere quietly grumbling that he has been "Gorbachevized," that he's selling Russia out in exchange for a pat on the head from the U.S. President. In a poll of Russians published last week in Izvestia, 52% of the respondents said they still view NATO as a threat to Moscow, while a newspaper sourly announced the arms accord with the headline Russia Has Lost the Nuclear War. Still, Putin has kept his generals happy by waging an aggressive and often brutal...
...Pat Conroy, author of "The Great Santini," "Prince of Tides," "The Lords of Discipline," and the like, quipped to a BEA crowd that while last year's big book was "The Corrections," this year's will be "The Erections," featuring "the simple love story between Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey...
...lightweights, though, are hoping to sneak up on people, as the first and second crews are seeded seventh and fifth, respectively. Still, the Crimson receives a tremendous boost with the return of co-captain Pat Todd, who has been sidelined all season by a back injury...
...There is no doubt that Pat is an excellent rower,” sophomore Alex Binkley wrote in an e-mail. “But more importantly Pat’s return means that we have a full team again, [which] is particularly important in the middle of a race when it comes time for us to go. There will never be a doubt in any rower’s mind that we are attacking with everything and everyone we have...
Senior shortstop Pat Boran then lined a single to left field just out of the reach of a leaping Mager to drive in the Tigers only...