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Will Russia go backward? The country has undergone profound changes over the past four years. Despite the understandable fears for the future, some of Russia's reforms have become so embedded that dislodging them would be difficult. As Zyuganov himself has said, "We understand that if we start taking factories back, there's going to be shooting from Murmansk to Vladivostok...
...script tries only half-heartedly to counter. Shuttling from scene to scene with dizzy velocity, the play attempts to cover all the aspects of modern love: jealousy, obsession, loneliness. There is no plot and no development; the nameless characters change personalities in each disjointed episode. It's about as profound and moving as a 30-second sound bite. The audience winces at lines like, "It is love. I will have to hide or flee"--a wince of sympathy for the actors who must recite such lines with a straight face...
...very clear when we started planning the conference that the Internet would have a profound impact on society," Kung said. "As a major university, Harvard seemed like the perfect place for a discussion...
...with profound shock and deep sorrow that we mourn the loss of 23 Israelis who were killed by two terrorist bus bombs this past Sunday. May their memories be for a blessing...
...everything comes easily to Trillin, 60, who lives in a Greenwich Village brownstone with his wife Alice. His new column, he worries, is slightly shorter than the one he is accustomed to writing. As a result, he modestly warns, "the readers are going to have to get their profound thoughts somewhere else." That, as Trillin admirers well know, is only allegedly true...