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...between the two men is the 28-word question put to the country in a referendum held on Sunday asking Soviet citizens whether the nation should be preserved as a "renewed federation of equal sovereign republics." The referendum, the first in the nation's history, had to be voted upon by a majority of the country's roughly 200 million eligible voters for the result to be valid; even then, the outcome has only symbolic meaning, since the details of the new federation must still be worked out in bargaining between the republics and Moscow...
...Halberstam remained a sportswriter until his death—the car crash came as he was traveling to an interview with a retired New York Giants quarterback. But Halberstam’s Crimson writings jumped off the sports page to the front page, and they touched upon the Cold War concerns that would reappear throughout his life work. He reported on the Red Scare that swept the nation in the early 1950s, as Senator Joseph McCarthy and his allies took aim at the “Kremlin on the Charles” and as the newly-inaugurated President Nathan...
...arts, culture, and the life of the mind,” is usually presented to an individual once a year, although the Institute sometimes awards it to groups of people. In 2005, the Medal was given to Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott upon their visit to Harvard...
Even if the results weren’t quite satisfactory, at least the weather was ideal.With the sun shining amicably upon McCurdy Track this past weekend, the Harvard track team continued their storied rivalry with Yale in the squad’s only home meet of the season.Although the Crimson was led by strong individual performances from both the men and women’s sides, the Bulldogs ultimately left Cambridge victorious, defeating the men, 114-45, and besting the women, 88-75. “We always know going into a meet that we’re going...
...bearer and hands-on favorite Nicolas Sarkozy into the May 6 runoff against his principal rival, Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal. But while both finalists spent much of their late campaigning playing to their respective hard-right and hard-left flanks, their efforts to win the presidency now depends upon their success in wooing a new force in French politics: France's suddenly surging center...