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...operas he has resurrected. Indeed, Gergiev was scheduled to take the stage at the Met this Christmas, but then Beijing called. They wanted him to open the first performance season of China's highest palace of performance, the $40 million National Grand Theater, better known in Beijing by its shape, as the "egg." The building, designed by the French architect Paul Andreu, is a gleaming dome with a subtle ying-yang design, surrounded by water and one of the most distinctive new buildings in a city consciously trying to turn itself into a 21st century metropolis...
...soccer program. Thanks to the past two remarkable seasons, during which the Crimson emerged and established itself as a national threat—and given that the team will be losing only two athletes to graduation before next season—Harvard looked to be in fine shape for next fall...
...magazine. Not that I always prove right. Still, I believe I'm right about this: Putin's formal emergence as the only viable national leader, and his tacit acceptance of the role, mark for Russia a point of no return in its slide into a new authoritarianism, the shape and nature of which cannot yet be fully defined. I'm sure that the period of Putin's rule - which I predict will be long - will once again put the country in the situation described by the great Russian historian Vasili Klyuchevsky almost a century ago: "The state was swelling...
...idea began to take shape about two years ago, when Michael S. Aktipis, a Cabot House tutor, was studying in the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar with colleague Mark D’Agostino...
...reinventing and structuring the Department of Education at HUAM. “One of his primary tasks will be to figure out what kind of Education Department we need,” said HUAM Director Thomas W. Lentz. “What we have now will change in shape and name as well.” The expansion of HUAM’s educational resources is motivated by the museums’ goals to make their collections more known and comprehensible to the public. “Even with the environment of the University with a lot of bright...