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...Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World” in 1966. Moore’s earliest scholarship was in the field of Russian politics and power. It was after publishing his 1950 work, “Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power?? that Moore joined the Russian Research Center. Even in his earliest days at the Center, Moore was “a kind of synthesizer, a big picture person,” according to Center Director and Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies Timothy J. Colton...
...cocaine. He finds it quite often in the work of his hero, Henry James. The consciously Jamesian touches of both Nick and the novel itself—the hero at once inside and outside a society, the incisive but never-misanthropic critic, the genuine appreciation of beauty, money, and power??all lend Hollinghurst’s plot and characters a sense of historical and cultural depth. Not that there isn’t enough to hold our attention in the plot’s present. The never-ending whirl of parties and holidays, buoyed on a golden wash...
Stephen M. Walt will speak at the Harvard Book Store at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25. He will be introduced by IOP fellow and former Senator Bob Graham, D-Fla.Stephen Walt’s new book “Taming American Power?? could be re-titled “How to Talk to a Neoconservative (If You Must).” Of course Walt, the Belfer professor of international relations and academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government, would not approve of that title: it’s not his style. “Taming American...
Just days after delivering a vitriolic speech to the United Nations General Assembly—in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Iran’s inalienable right to enrich uranium and develop nuclear power??the hard-line president gave another highly distressing address. During a military parade, he told cheering crowds: “Those who decide to misuse our nation’s honor…should know that the flames of the nation’s wrath are very hot and destructive.” Amidst the parade, banners proclaimed “Israel should...
...young’uns are cute even in their one-dimensionality. A geek, a white ghetto boy, a loner, a hippie, and a tough guy (a-bit-too-cutely-named Warren Peace) are among the Sidekicks attending Sky High. They are predictable, though sweet in their lack of power??one melts, one glows, and another can even turn into a guinea...