Word: petersburgs
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...Next, Bush flies to St. Petersburg to reassure the Russians that an enlarged NATO is no threat to their country. Bush also hopes to use his personal relationship to bring Putin along a little more in support of pressuring Iraq. Though Russia has strong economic ties to Baghdad, Bush hopes the promise of greater economic links with the United States will help convince Putin to modify his highly qualified endorsement of the American position. That's not the only benefit. By casting its lot firmly with a united anti-Saddam coalition, Bush will argue, Russia takes a big step forward...
...York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, meanwhile, said he remains optimistic that Republicans will hold their 2004 convention in the Big Apple. New Orleans and Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., are other potential sites for the event, which will be held the week of Aug. 30. Republicans are expected to reveal their choice by early December...
...DETHRONED. OXANA FEDOROVA, 24, St. Petersburg police lieutenant and law student who in May became the first Miss Universe from Russia; by pageant officials in New York City. The pageant says Fedorova was sacked for undisclosed reasons, but she claims she chose to give up the title in order to dedicate more time to her career and education. Miss Panama, Justine Pasek, the first runner-up, has been crowned in Fedorova's place...
...have seen St. Petersburg at its best. Its beautiful buildings are bathed in sunlight almost 20 hours per day because of its northern location. I have gazed at Monets and Picassos in the Hermitage museum for hours. I saw the ballets Swan Lake and Giselle in the same week and have daydreamed to renditions of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky by the St. Petersburg Symphony...
Anne K. Kofol ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Mather House. This summer she is studying Russian in St. Petersburg and enjoying her blini with chocolate. She vows to be nicer to tourists when she gets back to New York in August...