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...Russian energy sector into a sleazy scam, trading oil and gas fields for campaign contributions. Meanwhile, ordinary Russians had to endure rampant inflation and unemployment. Small wonder Russia's geopolitical standing seemed to crumble during the 1990s. As former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact allies queued up to join NATO, the superpower seemed really to have become--as the cold war joke had it--Upper Volta with missiles...
...Because Biden gave her husband his first job, and she felt she had to--in the words of someone close to her--"respect that relationship." But old relationships can take you only so far, and candidates will have to continue to schmooze, seduce and cajole big money to join their team. Says a G.O.P. member: "You can't get to $100 million at $2,300 a clip"--the limit set by the McCain-Feingold reforms in 2002--"by just calling your friends. Nobody has that many friends...
...innate Scottish reserve stops me from jumping into the fray with the same abandon as everyone else. Yet as I slip my cocktail back in my belt and watch grown adults spray each other with foam, I know that if I really want to enjoy myself, I must join the ranks of those happy drunk people cavorting around half naked. "Carnival is interaction," agrees my friend Tatiana Guimaraes. "You have to get in there in the middle...
...official carnival]," said Roberto da Matta, one of Brazil's best know anthropologists. "It's a 12-hour show and no one can stand it. So if you go to the city center or to a praça [a square] and see folks having a good time, you join them. With blocos you don't have to look for carnival, carnival comes...
...resolution is virtually certain to pass. About the only uncertainty is how many Republican members will vote for it. Most congressional observers predict somewhere between a dozen and two dozen Republicans will join the Democratic majority in passing the measure...