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...Faiola, an All-Ivy first-teamer as a sophomore, had struggled a bit last season, going 3-3 with a 4.96 ERA. But with his most recent effort, he certainly appears to have found his groove. The 12-inning endeavor lowered the Colorado native’s ERA to a league-best 1.90, complementing his five complete games in seven games started...
...just five months old, but with its period furnishings the TUTTO cocktail bar, tel: (41-43) 818 2391, is as good a simulacrum of the 1960s as you'll find. The chandeliers and red velvet at BASILICA, tel: (41-43) 366 9383, take revelers back to an even older era. More contemporary interiors are found at the LABOR BAR, tel: (41-44) 272 4402, backdrop to local TV celebrity Kurt Aeschbacher's chat show, or at HARD ONE, tel: (41-44) 444 1000, a slick rooftop lounge. Among the area's many good dance clubs are ROHSTOFFLAGER...
...business with Sudan. New Haven’s divestment comes on the heels of a similar decision in Providence, RI. For New Haven, the move is not unprecedented, as city officials took a similar measure in the early nineties, divesting from businesses involved in South African commerce during the era of Apartheid. The measure, passed by New Haven’s two pension boards, prevents the city’s pension funds—the City Employees Retirement Fund (CERF) and the Policemen and Firemen’s Pension Fund—from backing seven companies that do business with...
...expert in Soviet-era prison tactics sees a familiar pattern in the assault on Khodorkovsky. Alexei Kondaurov, a retired KGB major-general, a former official of Khodorkovsky's oil company, Yukos, and current member of the Russian legislature, recalls how other convicts, often mentally unstable, were recruited as agents and placed around a target prisoner. They don't need orders to assault a prisoner singled out by the administration for harsh treatment, Kondaurov says. "They just do it to seek lenience and rewards...
...went abroad with the billions they'd amassed during the Yeltsin years, the Yukos tycoon returned to face a trial widely viewed as crooked, and ultimately prison. In many an eye, that may have transformed him from yet another sleazy oligarch into the latter-day equivalent of that Soviet-era icon of dissent: a prisoner of conscience. "The Kremlin has done free campaigning for him," quips legislator Alexei Mitrophanov...