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...Sakhalin in Russia's Far East was never going to be easy, but a political chill has put some of the world's biggest energy projects in an unexpected deep freeze. In the decade since they [an error occurred while processing this directive] negotiated separate drilling agreements with Russian authorities, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have gone way over budget and incurred the wrath of leading environmental groups. But last week, the two oil majors faced their biggest challenge so far: a Kremlin backlash that could hold up or even potentially derail their plans. Moscow revoked a key environmental license...
...released from the hospital and returned to my Washington home. My kids resumed their half-time life with me. Victor Vorobyev, a Russian émigré hired by TIME as my driver, chauffeured them to and from school. I overcame my nightmare of not being able to produce peanut butter sandwiches, with the help of technology from Captain Katie's OT kitchen. A sheet of sticky, rubbery material held the jar in place while I twisted off the top with my good hand and scooped...
...center of the New Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields†that dangles from the neck of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...
Five departments confirmed that they plan to submit proposals before the October 15 deadline, including Celtic Languages and Literatures, Classics, English and American Literature and Language, History of Art and Architecture, and Philosophy, according to department chairs. The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies also intends to submit a proposal by the first deadline, according to Lisbeth L. Tarlow, the associate director of the center...
...excellent, because the courses have equally obtuse subject matter and syllabi. Students might question the ties that bind classes like C-20, “The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga†and C-51, “Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde.†A common theme seems to be the study of how a specific kind of art worked in a specific historical epic, how it was influenced by current events and how it influenced them in turn. The keyword is “specific...