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There's nothing Russians love more than a good scrap. After the writer Sergei Aksakov bought the Abramtsevo country estate in 1843, it soon grew into an informal club for Slavophiles - intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant...
...these limitations are integral to the writing process. “The restriction of dialogue and the various elements of writing a screenplay can elicit some really great material,” the NYU transfer says.But restriction can lead to immense frustration. For instance, the perseverant Smith had to scrap his first script. “I started writing this screenplay about a bunch of high school kids’ hot teacher,” he says. “I kept running into road blocks, and I just couldn’t figure a way to engineer it right...
...sector last month, Kroes conceded that Europe's gas and electricity markets were still dogged by "real market distortions" that stiff the consumer. "Take this as a gentle word of warning," she cautioned. "We are at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement." Kroes can scrap deals that put competition at risk by creating or reinforcing a dominant position, but it's a tough case to make when the combining companies are anchored in different regions or product sectors. Moreover, injecting competition into the energy sector is made difficult by the legacy of the past. European nations...
...determined are the key players to grow by acquisition that they will look for deals anywhere. Should Spanish government-backed Gas Natural triumph in the scrap for Endesa - it may yet beef up its original bid to compete with E.ON's all-cash offer - the German group may switch its attention instead to the British market. That's in part thanks to a U.K. government that's "pretty relaxed" about letting power providers join up with foreign suitors, says Hendrik Van Brevoort, a utilities analyst with Putnam Investment in London. "They take the attitude, it's a regulated industry ... whoever...
...March 3 article, "Hist 10a Could Be Ancient History," incorrectly characterized Baird Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky's remarks regarding a proposal to change requirements for history concentrators. Kishlansky did say that the department was considering a proposal to scrap a rule that makes History 10a and either History 10b or 10c mandatory for concentrators, and to replace it with a requirement that concentrators take one pre-modern history course and another course geographically removed from their area of interest. However, Kishlansky did not say that the department was considering the outright elimination of the 10a course, which...