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...first light, Russian troops in combat gear move slowly along one of Grozny's ruined main streets, past makeshift crosses erected to their fallen comrades. Hugging the edge of the road to avoid snipers, they peer into the bushes, looking for radio-controlled mines and booby traps laid overnight by Chechen separatists. The soldiers--young conscripts fresh from the provinces and professionals here for the money--are tense, but they barely glance at most Chechens passing by. And the Chechens ignore them. The Russians don't find any mines this morning, and at a concrete-and-barbed-wire checkpoint, their...
...state's devotion to the "Don't ask, don't tell" orthodoxy. After he started seeing men in Wyoming, Padgett discovered what many other lesbians and gays here already knew: if you stay out of roughneck bars like the Fireside (where Shepard met his killers), and if you avoid propositioning heterosexuals, you'll be fine, because straight Wyomingites will keep their end of the bargain--they won't ask. "Wyoming is a state of fences," says Bob Hooker, 43, a Wyoming AIDS activist who was born and raised in Laramie. "It has this whole attitude that goes back to ranching...
...almost never gives interviews, so I counted myself very lucky when he granted me an audience in the early 1990s. We met in his office in Cape Town, the novelist a pale and austere presence in his tweeds and corduroys, and I under strict instructions from his agent to avoid questions about the son who fell from a balcony, the ex-wife who died of cancer and the manner in which these private tragedies might have influenced his most recent writings. We were to talk only of literature, but my opening question was greeted by dead silence. Coetzee was writing...
...College has recognized the importance of addressing mental health issues on campus. But by not taking advantage of the existing peer counseling groups, the FDO is missing an important opportunity to put a human face on one of the many services available. Harvard students have a tendency to avoid asking for help at all costs; when first-years do need help, they will only think of peer counseling groups if they have been exposed to them. Without mandatory outreaches, the groups do not get much direct face time with first-years...
...avoid restrictions on use of our dining hall or access to the House,” he said...