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...Yeltsin had moments that made one believe Russia could shed its authoritarian impulses and emerge as something of a Western-style democracy. His finest hour, really his defining moment, was in August 1991. The leader of the country, Mikahil Gorbachev, was in the Crimea on summer vacation, and dark forces opposed to Gorby and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup...
...Making things more difficult, there has been a rash of recent high-profile lawsuits involving students who were summarily booted off campus after they were deemed at risk of suicide. Last August, New York City's Hunter College agreed to pay $65,000 to settle such a case. In the wake of these suits, the Governor of Virginia signed a bill last month that prohibits state colleges from penalizing or expelling students "solely" for attempting suicide or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts. The law's primary goal is to encourage kids to get help, and it also requires...
...Seung-Hui was only a first grader at Shinchang Elementary when the family left in August 1992. The boy mostly grew up in the U.S. and usually Americanized his name as Seung...
...Seung-Hui was only a young boy at Shinchang Elementary when the family left in August 1992. He mostly grew up in the U.S. and usually Americanized his name as Seung...
...Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has called upon Japan to revise its pacifist constitution, the country has taken a turn to the right, and political intimidation by fringe rightist groups isn't unknown. In August the house of senior legislator Koichi Kato was burned to the ground in an arson attack, in what was taken as a warning against Kato's outspoken liberal views. It remains to be seen whether Itoh's shooting was another political warning, or just a personal grudge...