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...boom hasn't yet caused Russians to shake their legendary pessimism. Andrei Milekhin, who runs the country's biggest polling organization, Romir Monitoring, says his polls suggest that most people don't feel better off even though they are consuming more. Everyone grumbles about inflation, currently at about 12%. Apartment prices are soaring faster than in Shanghai or New York City. But for all its uncertainties, the Putin era seems less erratic than the tumultuous years of the previous decade, spanning the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the Yeltsin-era crisis in 1998, which wiped out most...
...Harvard students, we often commend ourselves on the diversity of our personal interests and our shared inability to shake addictions to mood elevating prescription drugs. But in doing this, we myopically ignore the most beleaguered and varied population on our campus—Teaching Fellows. Or, as I like to call them, “TFs.”TFs come in many different forms, but they all have the same job: teaching a crap-load of thankless material to a room full of phenomenally annoying 18-year-olds.Some have come to terms with this fact and are extremely jolly in consequence...
...it’s a folk celebration. Some are Morris dancers here for a performance, and some people just come to watch.” Morris dancers traditionally perform a type of folk dance thought to be unique to England. Powell added that it is considered good luck to shake the hand of a Morris dancer on May Day morning. Perhaps in anticipation of upcoming final exams, Harvard students formed a receiving line on the bike path along the river to greet the dancers when they were done. In addition to the adult Morris dancers, similarly flower-laden children...
Snow, 50, will replace don't-stray-from-the-message spokesman Scott McClellan as part of Bolten's staff shake-up. Republican officials expect the new guy to be more aggressive in selling Bush's policies, both behind the scenes and on camera. And though a Fox star becoming Bush's mouthpiece may sound like something out of a Tom Wolfe novel, even White House reporters seem enthusiastic, hoping that one of their own will pop the building's hermetic seal. (The last person to make the jump from reporter to White House press secretary was Ron Nessen during...
This new episode, more so than its unsavory predecessors, has been an opportunity for bloggers and snarky columnists alike (ahem) to shake their heads smugly and tsk-tsk at the unhappy fate of elite college students in an age of unfettered corporate capitalism and adolescent ambition...