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Murder is a firmly established tradition in Russian battles over money and power. So, the suspicion in Moscow is that the recent murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and former KGB operative Alexander Litvinenko - as well as the alleged attempt on former prime minister and economic-reform mastermind Yegor Gaidar - result from domestic clan warfare. Russians are quite accustomed to seeing assassination used as an instrument to silence an opponent or redistribute assets, and over a dozen major energy-corporation and banking executives have been killed in the past couple of months alone. What is different about the Litvinenko and Gaidar...
...Needless to say, NBC is by no means the first outlet to alter their official nomenclature. According to Editor & Publisher writer, Anna Crane, the Los Angeles Times was amongst the first media outlets to shed the qualifiers and label the fighting directly as a civil war. Other organizations have since fallen into line. The Christian Science Monitor likes “deepening civil war,” while Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria is pretty direct: “We’re in the middle of a civil war and are being shot at by both sides...
...among themselves for limited resources or opportunities, thus preserving the power for those who have benefited in the past. On the other hand, today and in recent past, those who are privileged can oppose policies such as affirmative action in the name of reverse discrimination. So, ultimately, who wins? ANNA WOOD Fairfield, CT December 3, 2006 The writer is an adjunct professor at Fairfield and Quinnipiac Universities...
...event—organized by IMPACT, a Harvard group dedicated to raising funds for grassroots projects in developing countries and cosponsored by the Boston Network for International Development—featured representatives from 17 different organizations, including the American Red Cross and the U.S. State Department. IMPACT co-director, Anna E. Fogel ’07, said that she was excited about the success of the event and praised the Harvard students who organized it. “The turnout was great,” she said. “We were also excited about the diversity of the attendees?...
...from the way that the freshman foil squad fared on Saturday, the Crimson’s ability to defend its national championship looks uncompromised. Artemisha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky combined to shut out both Rutgers and UNC 9-0 and slice through NYU 8-1. Despite a frustrating loss to the Nittany Lions, the foils still managed a 5-4 record against Penn State...