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Upon returning to Moscow in 1944 after a seven-year absence, the American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt to smooth away contradictions," he wrote. "The Russian tends to deal only in extremes, and he is not particularly concerned to reconcile them. To him, contradiction is a familiar thing. It is the essence of Russia...
...night to ask her out, and before long Gonzalez had fallen in love. It was an affair to remember. At Portell's urging, Gonzalez arranged to purchase a kilogram of cocaine through an acquaintance. But federal drug agents busted her and the dealer, and she is now serving a seven-year prison term...
...most of its seven-year history, the Undergraduate Council has been plagued by a lack of direction. Although it has become a more active political forum this year, there is no institutional guarantee that the council will continue to represent student opinions on issues more substantive than keg parties and shuttle bus schedules...
February 6: The third period lasts forever, but Harvard's smallest hockey player is bigger than life as the Crimson breaks a seven-year 'Pot jinx with a 5-4 triumph over...
February 6: The third period lasts forever, but Harvard's smallest hockey player is bigger than life as the Crimson breaks a seven-year 'Pot jinx with a 5-4 triumph over...