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...sign in the window of the wedge-like building squeezed into the corner where Brattle meets JFK Street advertises “Old & Used Books, Roman Coins Bought and Sold.” It beckons toward Room 306, home to the Harvard Book and Binding Service and one of Harvard Square’s most venerable and idiosyncratic characters. Upstairs, the shop’s door is decorated with military airplane stickers and a “No Smoking” sign. When it opens, a doorbell goes off in the back room—giving Robert Marshall, the proprietor...
...even five years ago that Chile would elect a woman as president?" Michelle Bachelet told thousands of cheering supporters who turned out Sunday night to cheer her election victory. Nor was it just any woman who had shaken conventional wisdom in one of the continent's most socially conservative Roman Catholic countries, which only recently legalized divorce: Bachelet is a 54-year-old physician, an agnostic, a socialist and a single mother of three. Her candidacy also offered the electorate an opportunity to reckon with the trauma of the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, which ended...
...fans, myself included. But when it comes to the Middle East, it is categorically biased to take a snapshot of events in 1972 and have that define a conflict. Khaled Radwan Cairo Church in State Your article "The Cardinal's Virtues," about Camillo Cardinal Ruini's efforts to push Roman Catholic Church doctrine onto the Italian political agenda [Dec. 12], gave only a glimpse of a very unpleasant situation. I cannot help brooding over the unique condition of a sovereign state being host to another state on its soil. Italy is the host. The Vatican is the parasite. Not only...
...Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” (Philosophy)“The whole thing boils down to government rights vs. property rights.” (Government)“Moby Dick is written on three levels.” (English)“The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” (History)“Locke is a transitional figure.” (Philosophy)“Marx turned Hegel upside down.” (General Education)“Any theory of underconsumption and purchasing power must be grounded...
...director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, when prosecuting oligarchs, Putin went “too far yet not far enough.” He went after the oligarchs that did not support him, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, yet suspiciously overlooked friendly others such as Roman Abramovich. Furthermore, the increasingly complacent Parliament was cajoled into passing strict controls on civil liberties. In a move almost unnoticed by Western media, Andrei Illarionov, a top economic adviser to Putin, resigned last week, loudly proclaiming Russia to be “no longer a free country...