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...roll out a new cell-phone service that summarizes literary classics in ultra-terse text messages. The firm aims to "fillet" pertinent plot points and provide another important study aid by highlighting key quotes. Who's helping the company distill the works of Austen, Dickens and Shakespeare into précis such as the one below of Romeo and Juliet? John Sutherland, who chaired the judging panel for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction. The University College London professor says text messaging's "educational opportunities are immense." Perhaps, assuming such bite-size lessons will help translate that "rdng...
Whitton was a four-sport athlete in high school, playing water polo, soccer, and softball while running cross-country. Her focus was always softball, and she captained her team as a senior to the CIS championship game, the equivalent of the state finals for Southern California...
...turn his attentions to nationalist hawks assembled before him. He reiterated Russia's opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he said was an attempt to "take Russia out of Europe, isolate Russia, for which European nations will pay very dearly." The counter-offensive: to strengthen ties with CIS neighbors such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Belarus. A man infamous for his extravagant p romises, Yeltsin wisely made few in a sober and sobering 24-minute address. One, to pay all pensions owed by June 3, actually drew some smiles from Duma members. Other skepticism was not so thinly...
...Rudenstine has not testified in front of Congress during his four years as president, according to the Congressional CIS index. Bok testified eight times during his presidency, but only once in his first seven years in office...
...response to a question from a member of the audience, Yavlinsky--who, with Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, recently devised a program of Western assistance to the former republics--recommended that CIS states strike an economic treaty to advance privatization and price liberalization...