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...contrast could not be more marked between Putin's increasingly assertive stance vis-a-vis the U.S. and the pliant posture of Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin was always more popular in the West than he was among his countrymen, especially as they felt the effects of his reforms on their standard of living and watched their country's geopolitical status plummet in as little as five years from that of superpower to that of a harmless family drunk...
...community, the reality is that The Crimson’s position vis-à-vis the University Police is similar to the New York Times’ stance vis-à-vis local and state law enforcement agencies. Some members of the HUPD force are special officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Some members of the force are deputy sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk counties. The Crimson took Harvard to court in our effort to gain access to HUPD records because we believe that members of this community should monitor the campus police force vigilantly—just...
...Right now we?re working on a Pre-Vis system, which is pre-visualization in movies. It?s very quick, almost like a video game: you can make movies very quickly and shoot them and them put them together. It?s just basically a moving storyboard, so it?s very easy for you to figure out how your movie is going to get made, and what it?s going to look like when it gets done. And it doesn?t cost hardly anything. Any big movie all has pre-vis, which are computerized versions of the movie...
...paper. I let him do some pre-vis on the last film, on Sith. And he loved it, and he did it on War of the Worlds. So he has accepted that part now because it?s so much better...
...already has done much by hosting the recent six party talks and keeping the group at the table. China’s actions have exceeded expectations, and all parties have been generous with praise. Playing up China’s supposed influence only inflates China’s power vis-à-vis the United States, as Beijing can threaten to encourage Pyongyang with its supposed “influence” in order to have Washington back down on other security issues, like Taiwan. China has already done its part to bring the talks together; now the United States...