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...source of demoralization. Living conditions would provoke a mutiny in many countries. Sergei, the Spetsnaz noncommissioned officer, lives in a slum. Officially called noncommissioned officers' married quarters, his single room measures 5 ft. by 8 ft., and he lives there with his wife and daughter. Ten families share a rat-infested kitchen and a single toilet whose walls are rotting from dampness. Sergei does not wear his uniform when he goes into the city--civilians view soldiers as losers, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sinister Force | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...fellow who kills lovers in parked cars on the advice of a talking dog. But in Summer of Sam, a kind of Bronx Boogie Nights, Spike Lee has made a very bad movie with David Berkowitz deep in the background. It's mainly about whether a Bronx hairdresser would rat on his best friend if he didn't get fellated by his wife. How do you say "Huh?" in Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bronx Bull | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...like a lab rat," Uche hastens to add. "She never stresses herself out. She just does things for the fun of it. My mother always called Iris a Renaissance woman because she was so young and [already] doing such interesting things...

Author: By Aby. Fung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renaissance Woman Keeps on Runnin' | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Indonesians are starting to smell a rat. Their first democratic election in 44 years went off without a hitch Monday, but with only a handful of votes actually counted two days later, opposition parties fear the election may be being stolen out from under them. Turning a country whose 127 million voters are scattered across 14,000 islands from a military dictatorship into a democracy was never going to be easy, but the General Election Committee had promised to complete half the count by Tuesday -? and by Wednesday night it had tallied only 7 percent. Indonesia?s stock exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Smells Rotten in the State of Indonesia | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...defending his political stance was becoming routine for Rosen. When he moved off-campus to a "pretty grungy" house near Central Square his senior year, the most alarming part was not the leaky roof or the dead rat above the ceiling boards...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Right: As an Undergrad, Rosen Protested the Protestors | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

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