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Friday, March 15, 2002

Loony Russian Academics: I love it. I sat through a tedious lecture from Lilia Shevtsova in the summer of 1993, when I was studying in Moscow. She was director of the Center of Political Studies at the University of Moscow at the time.

Here are my favorite quotes from her lecture:
  • "There are no morals in commerce." (speaking of the sale of nuclear weapons to Iran, India, and Pakistan)
  • "Intellectuals like to suffer."
  • "Siberian grain is the best in the world."

Several years later, she gets taken in by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Go figure.

posted by Howard @ 3/15/2002 04:11:36 PM