Word: siberian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center as possible. Since the "mend it, don't end it" speech, he has said nothing audible about affirmative action, and the Democratic Party financial apparatus has not directed funds to the anti-Prop. 209 forces who, by the way, are quietly furious at the Siberian treatment they are getting...
Just look at him now. He is a campaigning dreadnought, wading into crowds from the black-earth zone of European Russia to Siberian forests, microphone in hand, bantering, pledging, urging. Wooing the youth vote in Ufa two weeks ago, his cheeks glowing, Yeltsin danced at a free rock concert, bellowing to thousands of Generation Xers, "Vote! Vote, or you'll damn well lose it all." At a state farm near Tver last week he promised workers, as he has everywhere, that he would pay their back salaries. "I'll give you the money, now that you have cornered...
...Sunday and Monday. "Local weather coverage has assumed tabloid proportions," TIME's Sam Allis reports from Boston, where television stations have promoted the storm and even recent, lesser bombardments "as if they are events of biblical proportions. One tunes into the eleven o'clock news to find scary, Siberian-like numbers written across a regional weather map. Only later do we find out that the minus forty-one registered in Worcester is, in fact, the wind-chill factor...
...TSAR: THE LOST WORLD OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA By Peter Kurth (Little, Brown; $60). Perhaps it's because we know the Russian imperial family were slaughtered in a Siberian hovel that their graceful life has such enduring appeal. Nicholas and Alexandra were shutterbugs themselves and kept scrapbooks that record the growth of their pretty children and the family's annual progress through palaces and yachts. The heart of the book is its eloquent detail. The tsarevich's little drum, the tsarina's snowy parasols have the impact of domestic artifacts found in a mummy's tomb, bringing a remote past...
...know, Vanserg is located off Francis Avenue near the Divinity School. We'd like to give you a better idea of Vanserg's location, but directions to this remote building might take up an entire editorial. Just think of the building as Harvard's answer to a Siberian gulag and you'll be fine...