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Though the project was also criticized for siphoning funds away from development in the humanities, science professors across the University have said that the building and other ambitious capital projects are necessary if Harvard wants to retain its position as a premier research institute. FITTING...
Former Soviet Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev will likely face questions about Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia when he speaks on nuclear proliferation at the Institute of Politics (IOP) next week...
...favor closer ties with Moscow, a decision by the E.U. to back Kosovo's independence could make waves. Aleksander Popovic, deputy head of the ruling Democratic Party of Serbia, told TIME that Serbia may well reconsider its "betrothal" to the E.U. if the E.U. recognizes Kosovo. Djelic, the Deputy Premier, agrees: E.U. support for a unilateral declaration, he said, "would throw the European orientation of Serbia - and certainly the speed of reform - into question." In one recent poll by New Serbian Political Thought, a nationalist journal, 80% of respondents said that they would seek closer ties with Russia if Kosovo...
...well-lopsided”—those with “demonstrated excellence in one particular endeavor.” Yet it is the rare Harvard student who is truly well-lopsided. Whenever someone inadvertently reveals to me that he is the world’s premier concert saxophonist, I brace myself for the inevitable “and.” Sure enough, he also tutors abused poodles in ASL twice a week. Braced by years as Student Body President and Literary Magazine Editor and Volleyball Team Captain, Harvard students fling themselves exuberantly into scores of extracurricular pursuits...
...Labor was on, not enough seats were changing hands in the country's populous southeast. On the monitors, former leader Kim Beazley looms, warning that the result had better not hinge on the late-voting Western Australia, where rude prosperity was helping the government. In the flesh, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh sounds grim about her own state, where only two seats are classed as Coalition marginals. "It's a huge ask of Queensland," she says. "We're still in nailbiting territory...