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What began as a private e-mail exchange between a Harvard Business School (HBS) student and an investment tycoon inadvertently turned into a highly publicized and personal debate over the Russian economy...
After the talk, Alimov wrote an e-mail to Rogers which further detailed his objections. Backing up his arguments with data from the World Bank and the Russian government, he asserted that Russia’s economic prospects are in fact much more promising than those which Rogers described...
...part of their campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church—and in an effort to make money—the Soviets took the bells from the monastery and sold them to Charles R. Crane, an American industrialist, in the 1920s. Crane then donated them to Harvard in 1930, and Lowell residents soon created their Sunday tradition of bell-ringing...
...professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, said she is well aware that those who are Russian Orthodox consider the bells, which are covered with icons, sacred...
Despite the absence of the Russian visitors, Edwards said she was particularly aware of the bells’ origins yesterday...