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...Harvard delegation visited a Russian bell foundry last Thursday, as University representatives and Russian officials prepare for the return of the Lowell House bells to Moscow’s Danilovsky Monastery. The trip, if succesful, could mark the end of years of negotiations over the return of the Lowell bells—some of which date back to the 17th century—that have remained at Harvard for nearly 80 years. Lowell House will receive newly molded bells from the Vera Bell Foundry in Voronezh, Russia, which was hand-picked from five foundries that University representatives surveyed last August...
...American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who decided later to donate them to Harvard. In 1930, they became part of one of Harvard’s most distinctive architectural features: the Lowell House bell tower. Now, almost 20 years after the reopening of the monastery, multilateral talks between the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian government, and Harvard have paved the way for the bells’ rightful return. Despite the fact that the Lowell bells have become a part of Harvard’s rich history, their sound marking such events as Martin Luther King Jr.’s death...
...Burgin likens his project to a “Chinese box or Russian dolls,” referring to the installation’s multiple layers of “housing...
After fluently reciting pi in Chinese and English, Zhou slowed down as he enumerated 20 digits in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spain, Thai, and Turkish...
...Peace. "They don't want to alienate the Iranians politically, and they don't want to lose business in nuclear exports, arms exports, and so forth," says Perkovich. "Perhaps as important, Russia has a desire to create an OPEC for natural gas, which is only possible with close Iranian-Russian cooperation. They don't want to jeopardize that, either...