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...that friendly servers (by local standards), ease of ordering (just go to the counter and point at the dish you want) and comfortable banquettes for snuggling away from the cold, and you've found the sweetest spot in the town center-especially if you're a non-Russian speaker...
...headaches caused by Sarbox, as it is sometimes called, have worked to London's benefit. From Russian Big Oil (Rosneft) to a Peruvian silver mining group (Hochschild), international businesses together raised $19.6 billion on London's exchanges last year. The number of international firms on the lse's Alternative Investment Market (aim) - the lightly regulated bourse for small-cap companies - has doubled in the past two years to more than 300 (prompting accusations from the n.y.s.e. that aim lacks rigorous enough standards; the lse said the claims appeared "to indicate a misunderstanding about the operation and regulation...
Through divisiveness brought about by centuries of unacceptable domination imposed by Rome, the world has a Greek Catholic Church, a Russian Catholic Church and an English Catholic Church. The time is ripe for an American Catholic Church. The U.S. bishops should begin now to circumvent the archaisms of Rome and formulate a relevant church in which all American Catholics can thrive in their religious lives. Emily Langford Bennett Princeton...
...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...
...armored only in innocence and determination and those qualities blinker him. He has nothing to compare Russian life to; as far as he knows, the whole world is as gray and unpromising as the territory he traverses. There is nothing sentimental in the way little Kolya Spiridonov plays him. Like almost all the other players in The Italian, he is not a professional actor and so he seems not to be acting at all; every encounter, whether cruel or kindly, is naturalistically (and neutrally) accepted and processed by him, after which he proceeds along...