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...question has pervaded all our housing horrors: "How is this possible? How can it be that our parents are scraping up money at home in order for us to live miserably here? Why does such a highly respected, progressive university have such a backward housing system? I find it absolutely shocking that after one year of "giving it a try," I am not allowed to transfer houses...
...Iranian dissident Parviz Dastmalchi glanced up at what he assumed was a late arrival coming to join the gathering. Suddenly someone shouted in Farsi, "You sons of whores!" and two gunmen opened fire. Dastmalchi threw himself backward under a table and played dead. The shooting lasted no more than a minute, then the gunmen fled in a dark blue BMW. Sharafkandi and two associates were killed instantly, and a third man died shortly afterward in the hospital...
...conclusion, Leland casts away even the pretence of detachment. He points to Paul Madore's candidacy for the state senate as evidence that "progress can move backward as well as forward," whatever that means. His final sentences ring with self-affirmation, declaring that the forces of right will finally triumph over small-town ignorance and evil: "In towns like Lewiston, history sometimes advances at its own uneven speed. But it advances nonetheless." This is not reporting. It is an exercise in contempt...
...there's no use in continuing to look backward. It's time to cease this constant rehash of the past. It's time to create new styles, new music, new ideals, new movements...
...that the Russian people have spoken, it is time to change our attitude to Russia's foreign policy too. During the fight to the , finish between the Soviet-era Congress and Yeltsin, it made sense for the U.S. to back him to the hilt. That meant bending over backward not to offend Russian nationalism: leaning hard on Ukraine to disarm; raising no fuss when Russian troops intervened in Georgia, Tajikistan and Moldova; keeping the East Europeans out of NATO...