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...dolce vita," Marcello Mastroianni plays Marcello Rubini, a journalist who makes his living By reporting the scandals of the rich and famous, the "high society" of Rome. Marcello is not just involved with this society in the professional sphere of his life; he adopts their strange and decadent lifestyle. Often it is unclear whether Marcello is reporting on the people he is spending time with or whether he has become a part of their society. The story does not have a conventional plot, rather, it evolves scene to scene, with a modernist and discontinuous structure...
...BALL. A metal sphere just over two feet in diameter was placed at the bottom of a long, spiral track. The ball moved, as if by magic, slowly and smoothly up the perilous incline. Almost 24 feet in the air, the ball stopped . . . A pistol shot rang out, and hands holding flags emerged through holes in the ball...
...underestimate Radcliffe's contribution to the academic sphere either. The existence of a separate institution such as Radcliffe helps validate and give credibility to studies of what are seen as "women's issues." The commentary by Douglas V. McLellan '94 Feb. 2, 1994 in The Independent is an example of the thinly veiled sexist arguments used to belittle Women's Studies as a less "serious, respectable, challenging" concentration. How deplorable it is that a physics concentrator should fashion the over-facile equation "Many magnas and summas awarded in Women's Studies=Women's Studies is an easy concentration." Since McLellan...
Well, Yeltsin did not fall. The Soviet-era hard-liners Kozyrev warned against fell. Some are in jail. But now it is Kozyrev himself declaring last week that Russia should keep its troops in neighboring republics: "We should not withdraw from those regions that have been in the sphere of Russian interest for centuries...
...foremost issue was Russia. At meetings with NATO partners in Brussels and with Central European leaders in Prague, the same worries emerged over and over. Would Russia backslide from reform and closer ties with the West? Would it reclaim its old sphere of influence in Central Europe? Indeed, Yeltsin looked with dismay at attempts of former East-bloc nations to join NATO. Why should they want to join? "Russia does not threaten any country in Central or Eastern Europe," he told TIME...