Word: siberian
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Several members, however, stand out from the ranks. As Molokov, a secret agent and Anatoly’s chess second, Jay D. Musen ’09 reaches registers lower than Siberian temperatures. Vanessa Tantillo entertains as the brassy arbiter who just wants the players to finish the game. But it is Mallory who takes the spotlight. Despite a bland script, she portrays a fully realized Florence. Her singing hits the mark throughout, and her songs, “Heaven Help My Heart” and “I Know Him So Well,” are the most...
...Siberian city of Barnaul, pensioners, angry with rapidly declining living standards and rapidly rising bills, last week stormed and occupied the Regional Administration Building, demanding more money. Russian sociologists are expecting a massive wave of similar protests and strikes to roll throughout Russia, not unlike those that shook the country in the 1990s, with angry coal miners blocking railways in Siberia and unpaid workers striking in the cities. Now some enterprises are again failing to pay their workers, while others simply go out of business. But disruptive protests would contravene a new labor code passed under Putin in 2001, which...
...half billion humans who relentlessly press their dominance on every corner of the natural world. Indeed, much of modern wildlife conservation has been built around the idea, pushed by the naturalist George Schaller, of promoting "charismatic megafauna" - awe-inspiring star animals, like the Siberian tiger or the African rhino, the species that draw crowds to zoos. The thinking is that by getting the public to support the protection of these animals, the wildlife that exists beneath them - the sort of animals most of us would pass on the way to see the elephants - would gain protection as well...
...conflict with Georgia is undeniably "having an impact," agrees Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer who represents Russia's most famous economic victim: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once headed the Yukos oil company. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was hounded out of business and he now languishes in a Siberian jail. "People who were among the most bullish on Russia are now ready to be the most aggressive in demonizing it," says Amsterdam...
...Siberian tiger that killed Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, and mauled two other men, brothers Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day, has sparked a police investigation and much speculation as to who is to blame. Authorities are still investigating how the animal escaped - recent reports indicate she could have jumped or scaled the enclosure's wall, which is nearly 4 ft. lower than the recommended standard - and whether or not the victims taunted her before the attacks...