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...faculty dynamics in the department speeded this shift in attitude at Harvard. According to Winter, popular Fine Arts 13 teachers Porter Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus James S. Ackerman and Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Emeritus Oleg Grabar retired in the late 1980s. They were replaced by new professors with new ideologies...
...campaign songs go, these lyrics would be, to say the least, original: "Everything has been confused and intertwined." "In our house there are remains from the rotten truth." Nevertheless, Oleg Gazmanov, 42, hopes to woo Russian voters with his soulful music. The hip-swiveling pop star is running for parliament next month on the Russian Democratic Reform Movement ticket and believes his sexy image and chart-topping hits will attract "ordinary people" who otherwise might not vote. "I sing in order to unite people," he says. "I see it as my civic duty to be a candidate...
...Garden of Scorpions" (1991), a recent Russian film, has more to do with the Soviet past than with the Russian present. Written and directed by Oleg Kovalov, the film juxtaposes a basic story-line, re-edited from a 1955 film called "Corporal Kotschetkov's Romance," with footage from Soviet films of the period from the 20s to the early...
written and directed by Oleg Kovalov...
...military ranks. Even if the top generals try to stay out of politics, many lower officers who are dismayed by the miserable living conditions of army units withdrawn from Eastern Europe and horrified by the economic and political chaos may feel otherwise. According to former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, recent army surveys show that two-thirds or more of the officers oppose the current reforms...