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...only the start. Invaders are not the only ones who get bogged down in Russia's vast expanses. So do reformers. They are defeated by geography and by the millions of apparatchiks who are masters at blocking, diverting, distorting, delaying and eventually destroying policies they do not like. Reforms aim to transform Russia, notes the country's greatest historian, Vasili Klyuchevsky, but they end up being transformed by Russia. Putin can cut Berezovsky down to size. He can jail oligarchs, scare governors and level Chechen villages. But actually transforming Russia will take more than just political will and cunning...
...group of local newspapers, was a ploy to doom the Examiner and leave the Bay Area with only one daily newspaper. The ruling, which many believe Hearst will appeal, has touched off a debate among media analysts about the Newspaper Preservation Act, a law passed in 1970 with the aim of preventing newspaper monopolies in America's cities...
...just think they've gone too far." The high-profile break echoed his father's termination of his N.R.A membership over a fund-raising letter that labeled gun-enforcement officials "jack-booted thugs." The Governor will probably deflect Gore's attacks by pointing to several laws he passed that aim to curb gun violence in schools by punishing those who sell guns to minors, increasing penalties for juveniles caught with a gun and penalizing parents if negligence leads to their gun being used by a juvenile in a crime...
...civilian casualties, and succeeded in driving out Serb forces and returning refugees to their homes. Last June there were 50 deaths each week in Kosovo, he notes, while today there are only five. Still, the defensive tone of his report signals that NATO has failed to realize its lofty aim of creating a thriving democratic, multiethnic Kosovo - and more important, perhaps, hints at the fact that NATO's troop presence needs to be maintained, or even expanded, to prevent a renewed outbreak of hostilities. "If NATO left either Bosnia or Kosovo, they'd be back at war within months," says...
...ensuring that there was a public forum for the exchange of ideas or by allowing students to contribute to their own causes as individuals - even if they choose no cause at all. It's easy to see how the Court believed the free flow of ideas that colleges aim to promote would best be served by making the fee mandatory. After all, if you gave a college kid $300 bucks, would you expect it to go to the Sierra Club? In delivering the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, "It is inevitable that government will adopt and pursue programs...