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...ability to make things work drew the attention in the mid-1980s of the Communist Party boss in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin. Luzhkov rose steadily under Yeltsin's benevolent shadow, and in 1992 was appointed mayor of Moscow. When the communist system collapsed, the city unceremoniously took over as much of the party's resources as it could. A corporation that is closely controlled by the mayor, Sistema ("the system"), now controls much of the capital's prime real estate, factories and construction firms, plus a media empire that includes a couple of TV stations. Luzhkov has described his blueprint...
...live in countries where the shadow of conflict and the specter of violence hang heavy over everyday life. Yet you have all made the courageous decision to work for the great cause of peace. You have gone beyond talk and belief, to action," Kennedy said...
...filmed subject "loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life, voice and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence. The projector will play with his shadow before the public." Shimon Attie's work, currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, is premised on such shadowplay, but with profoundly moving results...
...Next came T.J. and Drake, our bosses. You may remember them. T.J. wore Sambas and grumbled a lot. Drake could produce an Alec Baldwin five o'clock shadow anytime he wanted. He had a girlfriend who liked salads and literature. Bennettoids have been spotted spawning in the Leverett Dining Hall. All points bulletin for pearls girls with posture...
...morality, and an "unrealistically high" need for achievement. "He may tend to expect too much of himself and take it hard when/if things don't go as planned." Imprisonment seems to have cured one of McCain's problems as well: as one who had long sought to escape the shadow of his famous Navy father, McCain "feels his experience and performance as a POW have finally permitted this to happen," according to his 1974 evaluation. McCain also tells a psychiatrist that among the benefits of his POW experience "he learned to control his temper better, to not become angry over...