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Vladimir Putin on Tuesday graciously accepted his nomination as chairman of the United Russia (UR) party that dominates Russia's legislature, a stepping-stone to his expected confirmation as Prime Minister on May 8. And if there was something rather Soviet about the rituals of the congress of the dominant party in Russia's legislature, the new distribution of power between Putin and his successor, President Dimitri Medvedev, is not entirely unfamiliar. Putin has made no secret of the fact that he envisages his new role as that of a head of government, nor do any observers of Russian politics...
...amidst the continual need to hunt and gather their own meals. It goes without saying that the do-it-yourself ethos of Fire & Ice precludes exposure to new cuisine or involved conversation among dining groups, making primitive grunts the optimal mode of communication. The restaurant does, however, differ from Stone Age eateries in one critical way: where Cro Magnon man had no need for currency, Fire & Ice demands all too much of it.—Columnists Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky can be reached at aufricht@fas.harvard.edu and kaletzky@fas.harvard.edu...
...close, Harvard had the match wrapped up with an early 4-0 lead. “We started playing well at the end of spring break and that momentum carried us through,” captain Stephanie Schnitter said. The Crimson hopes to use this weekend as a stepping-stone for next week’s match against No. 63 Penn (7-7, 2-1). Staying undefeated in the league will be a challenge for Harvard, since the Quakers are one of two ranked teams in the Ancient Eight. “Our biggest match is our next match against...
...just did a Rolling Stone shoot, we did Spin magazine, we’re doing Vanity Fair, we’re doing GQ,” Wallach says. “But that’s all within the past four months or five months so it’s all happened very quickly. The way it is now, there are certain circles where people know who we are. Like, if I go into a hip sneaker store, someone will say something...
...Reeves provides the necessary reminder in “Somebody Scream!” that hip-hop is much more: a potent political force that releases the latent energies of black poverty, violence, and frustration. Reeves, a film and music critic who has worked for The Source magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, sees hip-hop as filling the void left by the collapse of the 1960s Black Power movement in defining black identity. The book makes the case, through biographical examination of certain representative artists, that Black Power has not died out but has merely been channeled...