Czar Vladimir Putin is divorced from reality: unification, faculty governance, largely divorced from one another, The Berlin Wall

China has ambitions in Central and East Asia that pose a potential threat to Russia, notes historian Niall Ferguson. "At some point their relationship begins to fray because, in truth, neither side really trusts the other."
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After two Mass. Hall decisions prompt controversy, some Harvard professors are calling for a centralization of faculty governance.

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Even as administrators call for the unification of the University as “One Harvard," individual faculties remain largely divorced from one another,...

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廖先生： 新書很不錯， 唯一美中不足處是將Berlin Wall 連起來寫，似乎是中式的。


The Berlin Wall was erected in September 1961 to prevent the outflow of skilled manpower from the German Democratic Republic and other Soviet bloc countries into the Western-controlled sectors of the city and thence into the West as a whole. It came to symbolize the Cold War and the rigid division of Europe into two armed camps. Its removal in November 1989 had precisely the opposite implications, culminating in German unification and the end of the Cold War.