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True to the Hard Rock Cafe concept, more House of Blues clubs are scheduled to open in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York City, and it's only a matter of time before they sprout like mushrooms globally. Picture it: The House of Blues, Bangkok. It's hard to believe that the Blues has come all the way from the post-bellum Mississippi Delta to this corporate cul-de-sac, but I suppose weirder things have flickered onto the Big Board...
Rosovsky, who was appointed dean of the facultyin 1973, received a mandate to restore order tothe undergraduate curriculum--or, in his ownwords, "to make the `fellowship of educated menand women' a more meaningful concept...
...BLAME GAME. When things go wrong in Russia, no one ever thinks that he personally might be to blame. In contrast to Western Christianity, the Russian Orthodox Church places little stress on the concept of personal guilt. The first two saints of the Eastern Slavs, Boris and Gleb, were passive martyrs to political intrigue. Their story provided a powerful image of suffering innocence in an unjust world that has lodged in the national psyche to this day. Russians routinely use the excuse that they are innocent victims of forces beyond their control to explain away personal failures. A vague, amorphous...
There are certainly those on the political fringe who openly advocate taking power by force. But Russians' predilection for the rhetoric of impending apocalypse and unfamiliarity with the concept of loyal opposition or healthy difference of opinion tend to exaggerate the risk of a putsch. They also obscure both the complexity of the country's evolving political culture and the frequent back-room negotiating that leads to shifts in allegiance among political forces and personalities. Short of being ousted himself, and perhaps as a means to avoid it, Yeltsin may decide to share power with some of his less radical...
...Disney's chair, Eisner heralded the return of classic family entertainment that Disney's recovery brought with it. But now Eisner is reintroducing a concept that is far older than Mickey Mouse--the concept of unrestrained greed...