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Only someone with particular tenacity would remain a communist in Russia throughout the 1990s and then manage to maneuver the party back to the brink of power. The son of village schoolteachers in southwestern Russia, Zyuganov began his career as a full-time party worker in 1967. He was serving as a deputy chief of the ideology department of the Soviet Central Committee in 1990 when he helped found a separate Russian Communist Party. It was created to oppose the reformist course of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Zyuganov proudly says he served...
Four restaurants in the commons will also be open on a flexible schedule for the rest of the month. A serving area on the north side of the commons will offer pizza, southwestern cuisine and sweets. A coffeehouse at the cast end will offer sandwiches, soups, desserts and coffee...
...hour later and he might not have noticed the rock, much less stooped to pick it up. But the early morning sunlight slanting across the Namibian desert in southwestern Africa happened to illuminate momentarily some strange squiggles on a chunk of sandstone. At first Douglas Erwin, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, wondered if the meandering markings might be dried-up curls of prehistoric sea mud. But no, he decided after studying the patterns for a while, these were burrows carved by a small, wormlike creature that arose in long-vanished subtropical seas - an archaic organism that...
...Worcestershire countryside riding horses, watching TV westerns and reading Jack London novels. He worked as a journalist and a screenwriter, but after a directing deal he had fought hard for fell through, he decided to pursue a book idea that had come to him during a trip to southwestern England. Evans had met a blacksmith who told of a local Gypsy able to tame wild steeds through some mysterious psychic connection. A horse whisperer, they called him. The story, says Evans, "made me shiver...
...commons will include a Freshens sweet shop that specializes in frozen yogurt, and a coffee shop featuring Seattle's Best Coffee and bakery items. Italian food and southwestern cuisine cooked by Harvard's kitchens will also be available...