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...outside MMM's building, waiting, mostly in vain, for the company to redeem their certificates. Police and Interior Ministry troops stood guard to intimidate potential troublemakers. There weren't many. The few lucky enough to exchange their shares for cash stumbled out of the building, with cardboard boxes and plastic bags bulging with rubles, to shouts from the assembled crowd: "Is there any money left?" A few yelled imprecations on Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and central bank chairman Viktor Gerashenko, but many were simply philosophical. Mira, a chemistry researcher who earns 60,000 rubles, or $30, a month, stood...
Syria's participation is critical because of the country's friendly relations with the most implacable enemies of peace, the wielders of car bombs and plastic explosives, who were back in business last week attacking Jewish organizations. London was rocked by two blasts, one from a car bomb outside the Israeli embassy and a second at the headquarters of a Jewish charity. All told, 19 people were injured. The blasts came just a week after a truck bomb set off outside a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed at least 86 people. After the attacks in Britain, governments around...
...Clancy would have us believe, you leave the theater thinking Jack Ryan is the only hope America has. Hooray to Hollywood for its plastic, prepackaged, "I know he'll win in the end thrillers." They'll keep me coming back again and again...
Even if the doctors manage to treat the diseases, survivors need to be fed and sheltered. Goma alone requires 600 metric tons of food a day, 1 million blankets, 200,000 rolls of plastic sheeting, 200,000 jerricans, 80 water tankers and 90 to 100 trucks to carry food the 497 miles from the Ugandan capital of Entebbe -- and these numbers are sure to grow. When the Red Cross began its food distribution, a child was trampled when the crowd, desperate that there would not be enough to go around, surged forward. "If it runs out, or if it doesn...
Predictably enough, Charlie and Yvonne fall for each other and Muriel decides she cannot take living in Queens any longer. She wants the high life and plastic surgery and her high school sweetheart, Charlie, who has lost his simple charms in her eyes, to shape up or move...