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When the Harvard men’s basketball team opens up its 2006-07 season Saturday afternoon versus Maine at Lavietes Pavilion, it will be without the full complement of its recruiting class.Freshman Tomas Balcetis, a 6’4 combo guard out of Vilnius, Lithuania, withdrew from the team shortly after the beginning of practice this fall due to a heart condition that puts his health at risk in high-activity situations. Balcetis, who averaged 20 points per game during his senior season at the Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H., made the decision to remove himself from the team...
...other delegates from Western Europe not to participate either, or at least not to say anything that might offend Russia. "People were jittery," according to one person who attended. Resources Behavior like that does not go down well in the U.S. In a speech in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in May that provoked a furious reaction in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney warned Moscow against using energy as "tools of intimidation and blackmail." One conservative Russia watcher, Ariel Cohen of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, says that "Russia had a very good opportunity to become a major alternative...
Ogunwole took home a bronze medal from the championships, which were held in Vilnius, Lithuania, July...
DIED. CZESLAW MILOSZ, 93, Polish poet and essayist whose politically charged writing in the shadow of communism earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980; in Krakow, Poland. Born in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, he spent World War II writing for the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw. Later, after a stint as a diplomat, he broke from the Polish government and wrote about the plight of intellectuals under communism in his 1953 essay collection, The Captive Mind. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, he taught Slavic literature at Berkeley for more than 20 years...
...created even bigger problems - for herself and for her country's allies. - By Anthony Spaeth. With reporting by Nelly Sindayen Affairs of State LITHUANIA Former President Rolandas Paksas appeared in a Vilnius court on charges of leaking state secrets. Paksas was impeached in April after just 15 months in office; if found guilty, he faces a possible three-year jail sentence. The trial was adjourned until September. Living Dangerously CHECHNYA In an escalation of ongoing violence, at least 20 pro-Moscow Chechen security forces and Russian soldiers died across the province in fighting that reportedly left several dozen militants dead...