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...Sale and Pelletier thought they deserved gold, and the audience thought they deserved gold, what happened? Skating judges are as close-mouthed as Secret Service agents about their decisions, so we many never know what they saw in the Russian pair that they didn't in the Canadian duo. Five of them ranked the Russsians for gold, despite Sikharulidze's slip on the double axel jump and Berezhnaya's skittery landings on the throw jumps. Sikharulidze, for his part, defended their performance and their finish. "I try hard, I try my best," he said. "We don't make big mistakes...
Deptula arrived at Harvard in 1954 as a research assistant in the Russian Research Center. She later became administrative assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Dean of the College. During these years, she compiled a 500-page list of the Administrative Board’s decisions over eight decades, from...
...their children inoculated with the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. A controversial 1998 study linked the vaccine with autism, though more recent research disputes this. Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson said that giving in to demands for a single measles jab, now in short supply, would be playing "Russian roulette" with children's health. Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to say whether his own son has had the combined inoculation...
...apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian Gino Severini's Dancer...
Natan Sharansky certainly appreciated those two famous words. He was a prominent Russian scientist and human-rights activist who was arrested in 1977 during a typical Soviet crackdown on “dissidents.” Imprisoned in a gulag labor camp, his heart swelled when he heard the news of Reagan’s address. In Peggy Noonan’s new book “When Character Was King,” Sharansky remembers, “There was fear in the West to deal with the Soviet Union,” but “Reagan...