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Dartboard cautions California’s voters not to punish their governor for problems he did not create—not because of any fondness on Dartboard’s part for the slick-haired sap, but because doing so would transform the governorship into a game of Russian roulette. If the governor can be tossed out in the street at any moment due to factors he cannot control, there will be no persuading any wise and prudent leader to run in the first place. Film actors and smut peddlers may be the kind of star candidates Californians will have...
Cirrus is not just taking on Cessna at home. The manufacturer sold its 100th plane in Europe last May, bringing to $27 million Cirrus' revenues there. (That month the company also sold its first plane to a Russian customer, who requested extra tires, spark plugs and chewing gum.) As in the domestic market, plane owners overseas act as an auxiliary sales force. At the company's celebration of its 100th European sale in June, more than two-thirds of Cirrus' European owners flew their planes in to meet the others...
...smoke, never to be heard from again. The modern program traces its roots to the 1950s, when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers and eventually oversaw the launch of China's first satellite, in 1970. The mission electrified millions of radicals in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, when the satellite broadcast the song The East...
...largest holiday bell, used only on the most important Russian Orthodox holidays, hangs in the center of the tower. There is extra room in the tower, Father Roman explains, because it was rebuilt to fit the largest bell—now hanging in Lowell House—which is three times bigger than the one at the monastery...
...monks say the archimandrite—the assistant to the patriarch, the highest position in the Russian Orthodox Church—may make a special trip to Harvard to speak with Summers in October...