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However it happened, says Peter Frank, a Soviet expert at Britain's University of Essex, "the reactionaries' interests and Gorbachev's are now in harmony." As evidence, Frank points to the composition of the new policymaking Security Council announced recently in Moscow. In addition to the President, its members are Vice President Gennadi Yanayev and Prime Minister Pavlov, both hidebound bureaucrats; Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh, a professional diplomat with little political clout; Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, all hard-liners; and two token moderates, former Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin and Yevgeni Primakov...
Many Western experts have been speculating that when the time came for a crackdown, Gorbachev would lead it. While he is a relatively benevolent dictator -- more Peter the Great than Stalin -- and his powers to rule by decree have been handed to him legally, he remains a dictator. His idea of democracy is a reasonable amount of public debate and a limited devolution of authority to the republics, but a clear concentration of power at the center...
...with that, you talkin’ about crack / I got my shit from education, what you know about that?” he fired back. The winner of each round was chosen by a panel of three judges, including Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Peter Richards and The Darker Side member and Crimson magazine editor Alwa A. Cooper ’08. The audience members were asked to cheer for their favorite performers at the end of each round, but the judges made the final decision on which contestant to send to the next level...
...Peter T. Ellison, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Pilbeam's colleague in anthropology, said this afternoon that Pilbeam has quietly contributed to the University for decades...
...greens were fast and undulating. “It was hard to make a putt if you didn’t control your distances very well and put your ball in the right spots on the green,” Shuman said. One highlight for Harvard was freshman Peter Singh’s eagle on the third hole Sunday. He hit a long, soaring shot that bounced one before dropping in the cup. “Parents who were watching started yelling and clapping,” Singh said. Aside from the eagle, however, Singh said that...