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EASTERN EUROPE "In a new era of peril and opportunity," Clinton told the U.N. last month, "our overriding purpose must be to expand the world's community of market-based economies . . . We seek to enlarge the circle of nations that live under those free institutions." That goal has led the U.S. to support Boris Yeltsin at all costs, which has so far meant ignoring his authoritarian impulses. Russia is a special case, of course, but other states of the former Soviet empire eager for democracy and free markets are also eager for security from Russia. Poland, Hungary and the Czech...
...Today the scientific capability of theAmerican university is the envy of the world,"Levin said. "We neglect its support at our peril...
Still, even with the strengthened returns, theroad ahead is not likely to be entirely smooth orwithout peril for the University's money. AsHarvard officials are quick to point out, thereare no guarantees that foreign stocks willcontinue to do well...
Still, even with the strengthened returns, theroad ahead is not likely to be entirely smooth orwith-out peril for the University's money. AsHarvard officials are quick to point out, thereare no guarantees that foreign stocks willcontinue to do well...
...Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally on the Greenland snow...