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There's nothing russians love more than a good argument. After the writer Sergei Aksakov bought the Abramtsevo country estate in 1843, it soon grew into an informal club for Slavophiles?intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant...
...Beijing, is the reason Chinese cities look the way they do: "We're a country of farmers. When we make it to the city we want to feel as far away from the land as possible. We hate weeds. We want to look up at tall buildings. We shun nature." To be truly urban, Yu says, China needs a new attitude toward...
That doesn't mean he is about to start following convention. He continues to shun attention, thus getting it. "Al has gone into his temporary hiding mode," says his spokesman. Instead of pep talks, his franchisees get the tough love usually reserved for customers. Yeganeh changes the menu at will, and he will pull a popular soup out of rotation if he thinks it could be better. "We've already had three different kinds of bread," says franchise owner Lisa Ruddy, whose Princeton shop opened in October. "Al is obviously temperamental, but he's an artist," says John Bello...
There's nothing Russians love more than a good scrap. After the writer Sergei Aksakov bought the Abramtsevo country estate in 1843, it soon grew into an informal club for Slavophiles - intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant...
...pride of Asia.” “He’s more candid than I thought,” said Yinliang He ’08. “I was also surprised that he tried to answer every single question and didn’t shun away from difficult questions.” The forum was co-sponsored by the Taiwan Studies Workshop at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Asia Program of the Kennedy School of Government, and the New England Taiwanese Students Association...