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According to accounts presented in court, Pring-Wilson, a student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, was walking to his Somerville home after a night of bar-hopping when he got into a fight with Colono outside Pizza Ring on Western...
...strength" [Sept. 27]. To repeat an old saying, That's like comparing apples to herrings. There is a reverse spin on Zapatero's view: only a few weeks ago, two female Chechen terrorists blew up two airliners over Russia, possibly to avenge the deaths of family members killed by Russian soldiers in a war of independence. What on earth does terrorism have to do with gender equality? Also, Zapatero said he didn't want "to be a great leader" but "a good democrat" instead. That's almost like a man suggesting that being a good - and occasionally strict - father...
...Even Russian security experts are alarmed by the nuclear material still floating around the region: nearly 600 tons of highly enriched uranium and plutonium under minimal security. A 2003 report by Harvard researchers concluded that under Bush's existing policies, Russia's excess stockpiles would be destroyed by 2018. Bush countered during the debate that he had increased funding for combatting nuclear proliferation by 35%. In fact, he has not increased that funding at all. The 35% boost was for safeguarding nuclear sites within...
...strongmen don't come any stronger than General Abdul Rashid Dostum. A former communist general known to have ordered enemy captives crushed under a Russian tank, Dostum, 49, is trying to transform himself from warlord into smiling presidential candidate. That's going to take some finesse, given that he strikes fear in many Afghans in his northern stronghold of Shebarghan. Dostum's idea of campaigning is to sit on a thronelike chair in his rose garden and scowl at a line of deferential tribal elders, officials and militia commanders who will be expected to deliver votes from among the Uzbeks...
...though the bell ringers may lack the talent of the Russian monks who visited Lowell in December 2003, that’s okay; it’s loud banging, not professional skill that is prized. The regulars actively encourage the first-time visitors to go up to the platform and belt out a few tones on the 13 functioning bells...