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...when he took power after 2003's bloodless Rose Revolution. He's an imposing man - at 6 ft. 4 in. (193 cm), he is the tallest Georgian I saw until we watched the national basketball team beat Belarus - with a polyglot charisma. At various times throughout the week, he spoke to me in Russian, Spanish and - above all - his famous English, an enthusiastic tumble of idiomatic American that he learned while studying and practicing law in New York City and Washington. (See pictures of the Russians in Ossetia...
...Bush's democratic evangelism - "In some ways, he's the last neocon standing," says Lincoln Mitchell, a Georgia expert at Columbia University - Saakashvili remains close to Biden, who visited Georgia in August. A senior Obama Administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says that in private talks, Biden "spoke very candidly about the importance of acting on his promise to pursue political reforms." Saakashvili said he likes the new Administration. "I saw mostly second-term Bush," Saakashvili laments: the Bush that was too distracted to pay attention. President Obama has essentially the same policies, but now "it's much better...
Closer scrutiny of last month's report of the first successfully tested AIDS vaccine suggests scientists spoke too soon. Analysis of a subset of data found that the vaccine's benefit may not be statistically significant; odds of being protected from infection could be no better than chance. Critics say the study's authors should have waited to publicize the results until after other scientists had vetted them...
Hollis Research Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, best known for recently grazing his cow in Harvard Yard, and author of "When Jesus Came to Harvard," was also at the Book Festival. In a panel called “Matters of Faith”, he spoke about religion in society today...
Hollis Research Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, who brought a cow to the Tercentenary Theater earlier this year in celebration of his retirement, spoke about the role of religion a society that suffers from “cultural attention deficit syndrome?...