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...before Alexander was born in a remote Russian village. After making a good impression with the intelligentsia at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he moved up in Soviet bureaucracy. In 1988, as dissent became pronounced all throughout Eastern Europe, Litvinenko joined the infamous KGB, the counter-intelligence agency and symbol of Soviet realpolitick in the West...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: A Plot Too Linear | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...another living hell,” reflected campus-wide disillusionment that Zaidi’s campaign will address. Tim R. Hwang ’08 and his running mate, Alexander S. Wong ’08, have taken the least traditional approach to the race, using an anarchist symbol and the slogan “Kill the UC.” “We are deadly serious,” Wong said. “About as serious as two slightly frail Asian boys can be.” “We’re having...

Author: By Rachel B Nolan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Race for New UC Chief Begins | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...Once one of Russia's richest men, he fell afoul of the Kremlin by taking an independent political stand and lost everything. Yukos has been dismembered, and Khodorkovsky, 43, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a Siberian jail on fraud charges he vigorously disputes, has become a symbol of the political nature of Russian justice. Before being jailed, he spoke to a newspaper about the aspirations of his compatriots: "They need democracy, because these are people who don't want to feel uncomfortable when talking to the police, these are people who want to watch whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dissident Voices | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...felt a lot of people might have been faking the adulation of it, to impress their parents or their teachers," says Portman. Plus, he knew that writing about a disaffected, sensitive young man with father issues would invite comparison. "So I said, 'What if the character made it a symbol for everything that is wrong in the world?' I thought it would be funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Revenge of the Dork | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...works like a dray and the Oscar perennial who shows off her breasts. It's the same instinct that told her what to do when Titanic became a global cultural obsession, transforming her from the daughter of actors making her way up the film food chain to an international symbol of young, reckless, undying love. She fled. She made a string of the least commercially appealing films imaginable, featuring wayward mothers, weird cults, memory loss and the Marquis de Sade. In fact, the 13 films she has appeared in since Titanic have not together grossed half of what the iceberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate in The Raw | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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