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...Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, a hero of the resistance to August's aborted hard-line coup, reformers in the city are trying to pull St. Petersburg out of Moscow's shadow and transform it into a gateway to the West. Some even suggest returning the political capital to St. Petersburg, though Sobchak says his task is "to revive St. Petersburg as the financial, cultural and scientific capital of Russia." For a precedent, Sobchak turns to the city's founder, Peter the Great, the Czar who set out to westernize the backward Russian Empire. "For 10 years Peter the Great tried...
Although it claims to be by Foucault, it is signed by a certain "Filek." Is this "Filek" a shadow writer, or does his (non-) persona constitute a(n) hermeneutical confluence of several heretofore unknown idiolects somewhere north-northwest of the Charles? What, incidentally, is the Charles? Is it'a person, or is it a river? If it is a person, is it (he) a phallogocentric construct...
Invoking the need for "shared sacrifice" in pursuit of the "common good," it belied the claim that welfare liberals lack moral vision. And it announced, in the shadow of the Reagan presence and the absence of a Mondale anything, the coming of The Great Liberal Hope...
...accomplish her agenda, and then get out, as she did as a legislator. Lifetime professional politics, she says, "makes you funny in the head." She does not want to lose the disattached perspective that allows her to see the quirks and flaws in progressive Cambridge that she says the "shadow of Harvard and MIT" tends to obscure...
...springtime bounce of a perky cheerleader, though taken too far, it leads straight to hell (666 is the number of the Beast). And 7 is everybody's lucky number -- we base our lives around 7 seas, 7 heavens and 7 graces (as well, inevitably, as their shadow side, the 7 deadlies). But what of 9? It is, we all know, an odd number (very odd), and an early square. It is a 6 on its head, a circle and a line, the highest digit and the last, with something of the darkness that attaches to last things...