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...Stalin-era high-rise in Moscow, Nemtsov is still beaming. A new strategy had come out of Kaliningrad, he says, and he seems restless to enact it. "We have to monitor the overall environment very carefully. We have to spot where protests are flaring up, and we have to act on that," he tells TIME. "At first it will be a mosaic. It will be fragmented ... But eventually the whole country will catch on." (See 10 things to do in Moscow...
...obtained the rights to Vincent Bugliosi's controversial Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is eager to weigh in on America's quintessential murder mystery. (Bugliosi is best known for having put Charles Manson in prison for the Tate murders.) Hanks and Gary Goetzman will act as executive producers, and Hanks hopes the adaptation will air in 2013. He believes the public has been snookered into believing that Lee Harvey Oswald was framed. "We're going to do the American public a service," Hanks says. "A lot of conspiracy types are going to be upset...
...legal framework for holding a referendum. The thing that remains unclear, however, is what kind of referendum it would be - one that calls for independence outright, or one that asks a more veiled question. Many Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks, say that doesn't matter - they see the mere act of holding a referendum as an intentional provocation. "It's meaningless in its substance," said Kurt Bassuener, of the Democratization Policy Council, a U.S.-based democracy advocacy group. "But the act is very meaningful." The Bosnian war, in fact, was sparked by a referendum on independence from Yugoslavia that...
...highlights Bosnia's deeper structural problems. "The problem is Bosnia's actual legal and constitutional framework," he says. "Dayton is a peace accord, but it includes our constitution in Annex IV. ... I cannot recall an example in constitutional history where a peace accord has been changed." Grebo says the act of holding a referendum is not in itself unconstitutional and that all citizens have the right to express their views on issues of governance. But, he adds, that doesn't mean a referendum can call into question the Dayton Agreement or that any vote would necessarily hold the force...
Warfarin works as a blood thinner by interfering with VKOR, a bacterial version of the human enzyme that recycles vitamin K in the liver. Through the recycling process, clotting factors are produced and secreted into the blood, piling up to act as coagulant agents...