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...audience was not already verklempt by the romantic melodrama of Schubert's love songs, the dismal puddles of wasser waiting for them outside were sure to cast a dark shadow on their oh-so-sensitive souls...
Lebed's dismissal also casts a disturbing shadow over the Chechnya peace plan. While the rest of the government was apparently sunk in paralysis, Lebed almost single-handedly brought the fighting to an end last August--at the cost, his enemies in the administration say, of sanctioning Chechnya's eventual secession. Kulikov, the man who led the charge to force Lebed out, has been a vocal opponent of the peace agreement, and is widely suspected of wanting to resume combat in Chechnya. The Interior Minister last week went so far as to hint broadly that Lebed had links with Chechen...
...agreement that would be unacceptable to many of his countrymen, hoping thereby to destroy a dangerous rival. But, says Charles Townshend, a professor at Keele University in England and a specialist on the British rule of Ireland, Collins was anything but the "simple rebel." He was, in fact, this shadow government's minister of finance and perhaps the ablest politician in the cabinet. He was not gulled by his President into negotiating with the Brits or fooled by them into taking less than he could have got. As for Jordan's implication that De Valera may actually have been complicit...
Walking along the Charles, in the shadow of Harvard's bell towers, it is easy to be overcome by the serenity of the river...
...whine of the tracks. Once I arrive in the Delta Shuttle terminal, I will pick up a magazine and watch CNN Airport News until Harvard seems positively foreign. And once I land at National Airport in Washington, D.C., I will vow not to let paltry academic concerns cast a shadow over my weekend. It will take effort, but it is doable and worth doing. Harvard is not contained in books alone, and sometimes it takes a weekend away to remind you what is truly important: browsing through history and reconnecting with family and friends, rather than sitting in front...