Word: aleksei
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...Gate. A Soviet combat team had, in fact, briefly raised its unit flag on the newly seized Reichstag building on the night of April 30, but the moment had gone unrecorded. On May 2, Khaldei set about staging a reenactment. He recruited a decorated l8-year-old private named Aleksei Kovalev and two comrades to clamber on the parapets to hoist his flag. Perched above them with his Russian-made Leica, he squeezed off 36 frames. The picture later was to be doctored and even colored for various propaganda versions...
...students—will help public health officials test a new way of responding to earthquakes and terrorist attacks. All participants will wear bar-coded bibs, which will allow event organizers to track injuries and hospitalizations, thanks to a grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Aleksei Boiko ’06 will be among the Harvard students running the marathon today. “I’m extremely concerned about injury, as I’m already nursing one,” he said. Though he appreciates the new system, he said he still plans...
...service set up to facilitate the purchase of votes for the Undergraduate Council (UC) elections shut down early yesterday morning after no buyers entered the market.In total, 34 votes for UC were offered at prices ranging from $1 to $50, but none were sold, according to Aleksei Boiko ’06, who created the service.But concern about the prospect of trading votes for money led the Election Commission (EC) to meet with the three UC presidential candidates late Tuesday night. “No vote selling has occurred as far as the Election Commission can confirm...
...students who wish to buy or sell send e-mails to a specific gmail account stating the lowest price they are willing to accept if they are a seller and the highest price they are willing to pay if they are a buyer, according to the personal website of Aleksei Boiko ’06, who created the service. After bidding closes at 11:59 p.m. today, the service will match compatible buyers and sellers. Those who sell their vote may be asked to vote in the presence of a vote market representative, according to the website, which also says...
...large cup of Starbucks coffee. Now, it can also buy you a vote for your favorite Undergraduate Council (UC) ticket. That’s the price Travis R. Kavulla ’07 has sent in to ucvotemarket@gmail.com, the election trading hub set up by Winthrop’s Aleksei Boiko ’06, among others. The site is intended to match up those who don’t care enough about the UC to cast a ballot with those who care so much that they’re willing to dish out some cash to ensure their candidates...