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Just down the Pike, the once-chaste women of Mount Holyoke, one of the nation’s oldest women’s colleges, can now receive exotic dancing lessons. Susan Scotto, a Russian literature lecturer, teaches the classes on campus. “I don’t see any way how an exchange of pleasure is something to be condemned,” she told the Union-News in Springfield. Scotto supported herself through exotic dancing while attending Berkeley and still dances semi-professionally, though she has made no plans to lecture at Harvard due to the inflexibility...
...guerrillas several years ago. The few human-rights observers who have dared visit, mostly from another Gorbachev-era group, Memorial, report a tragic litany of murder, brutality and looting by the military. The Kremlin denies this. There are few independent reports: covering the war has become too dangerous for Russian journalists, and foreign reporters are not allowed to move around the war zone on their...
...from highbrow. Its news programming was generally acknowledged to be the best on Russian TV, but it boosted ratings dramatically with its reality TV show Za Steklom (Behind the Glass), which sailed close to pornography as it followed the adventures of a group of attractive young people sharing an apartment - and backrubs and showers. This irritated the Orthodox Church, but the Kremlin was more angered by TV-6's majority owner, Boris Berezovsky, a business baron during the Yeltsin era, an early Putin booster and now the President's exiled enemy. The animosity between Putin and Berezovsky is well-known...
...broadcasting license, though he doubts they will obtain it. But "even if we get back on the air, Putin will come after us in six months or so," said a reporter, who now talks of leaving journalism altogether. If he and his colleagues do give up the fight, Russian TV will be a poorer place. But perhaps then Putin will have to turn his attention to the sort of questions that cannot be solved by bailiffs or judges - poverty, corruption, the economy...
...candidate countries only a quarter of the payments made to existing member states. Entrants would have to wait up to a decade to receive similar amounts. But the proposals, yet to be debated, provide for $35 billion in direct aid, rather than production subsidies. CHECHNYA Choppers Down Russian forces in Chechnya lost two Mi-8 helicopters within two days. The first exploded and crashed, killing 14, including General Mikhail Rudchenko, Deputy Interior Minister in charge of the North Caucasus, General Nikolai Garidov, commander of the interior troops in Chechnya, and three colonels. Conflicting versions emerged about the cause...