Word: petersburgs
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...star of the museum's exhibition, though, is a 104-cm black basalt statue on loan from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. One of the best-preserved representations of a Ptolemaic queen, it has been identified as Cleopatra VII. The figure is holding a double cornucopia and wearing a headdress decorated with three cobras-symbols associated only with...
Computer programming is lucrative--even if you're not entering the job market. The winning team, from St. Petersburg State University, walked off with $3,000 for each teammate. The Harvard members won $500 each, among other prizes...
...high-tech surveillance experiment on its unsuspecting guests. In total secrecy (but with the full cooperation of the National Football League), the faces of each of the games' 72,000 attendees were scanned and checked against a database of potential troublemakers. The news, first reported in the St. Petersburg Times, raises some urgent questions: is this the end of crime--or the end of privacy...
...Justice Department are arbiters for many diverse ethnic groups who seek intervention for social injustice. Even if Ashcroft's heart is pure, his failure to implement voluntary busing of schoolchildren as part of a Missouri desegregation program showed racial insensitivity. FARIBORZ MOHAMADI Lake Forest, Ill. A Bleak St. Petersburg...
Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent and Russia's President, is a St. Petersburg native. He made his name as one of the energetic reformers who gave the city a rolling start as communism collapsed. But these days that momentum is gone, replaced by the languid inertia of drink, drugs and sex. Putin is desperate to change his country. The kids in these photos are desperate to change their lives. That should be a recipe for hope, but in this lawless, rotting city, it has become a prescription for despair...