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In most parts of the world, this would seem like a completely normal arrangement for two countries to make. But this is Russia's backyard. And Moscow, which has yet to react to the Kazakh offer, may not take kindly to two of its former republics' striking an energy deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy Wars: Russia's Neighbors Get Even | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Born Jan. 31, 1929, in London - her schoolteacher father Charles had competed as a gymnast for England in the 1912 Olympics - Jean Merilyn Simmons was blessed from youth with a beauty the camera simply had to capture. The striking quality in Simmons was the waywardness of her beauty: a triangular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean Simmons: Portrait of a Complicated Lady | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

Although Akpan racked up impressive accolades as a forward in college, he will join a Rapids club that is already loaded with top striking talent. Forwards Conor Casey—a member of the U.S. Men’s National Team—and Omar Cummings had 24 goals and...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Akpan and Nyamekye Selected in MLS SuperDraft | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

Which make it a perfect subject for an apocalyptic battle among the Justices of today's Supreme Court. Nothing revs them up like a symbolic fight over an intractable issue. Thursday's pile of opinions in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, striking down certain limits on corporate electioneering, found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Campaign-Finance Ruling Good for Democracy? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

Nina, the sweet and modest neighborhood prodigy, won a scholarship to Stanford. Yet Nina is torn between the many stresses of her school environment, exacerbated by the hope that her parents and the rest of the neighborhood have in her. The contrast between Beltran’s joie de vivre...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "In The Heights" Channels the American Dream | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

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