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Over the Thanksgiving break, Jarred D. Johnson ’05 was thankful to learn that his high school sweetheart Tracy had recently split up with her husband of two years. Johnson was somewhat less thankful to discover that the marriage ended when a suspected infidelity drove her husband into a state of raging delirium that caused him to assail his wife’s lover with an aluminum baseball bat. Johnson was even less thankful to discover that Tracy’s ex is still on the loose. Johnson, however, was least thankful to learn all of this after...
...with Yukos was on hold. So why is Putin anxious? Because the Yukos affair has destroyed the balance of power between the associates of former President Boris Yeltsin - known as the Family - and the siloviki, the law- enforcement and security officials who are close to Putin. The Khodorkovsky crackdown split the Kremlin, pushing Putin even closer to the siloviki and unnerving the Family. One key figure associated with the Family, the head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin, resigned a few days after Khodorkovsky's arrest. Another, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, is so disaffected that his departure is only...
...bigger ones. By acting as they did, France and Germany unwittingly gave Britain, Poland and Spain a foretaste of worse things to come. Why hop on a train where two engineers, by dint of their size and power, are more equal than the others? And so Europe is split again. Earlier this year, during the run-up to the Iraq war, it was France and Germany (plus Belgium and Luxembourg) against most of the rest who refused to be drawn into the anti-American orbit organized by the two Continental powers. Now, the lineup is not identical, but similar...
While neither the Saints nor the Knights are spectacular teams, they both are capable of beating Harvard if it doesn’t put in the same kind of effort it did against BU. In the wake of the weekend split with Princeton and Yale, Mazzoleni said his team needs a “lunch-pail type effort” and failing to have that made the Crimson not only “an average team” but also “very beatable...
...stood collectively, so we sent a stronger voice than had the vote been split,” she said after the meeting...