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...officials would embezzle the money. That makes him "the only oligarch in this country," says Anatoly Lebedko, chair of the opposition United Civil Party (ucp). "He can redistribute profits at will among state-owned and even private enterprises." From these proceeds Lukashenko maintains a Soviet-style welfare state providing basic medical services, education and pensions - though the payouts are meager. Yet relations with Russia remain uneasy: there is no love lost between Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, says Andrei Sannikov, former Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Kremlin is keen to bring Belarus back into Russia's fold...
Animal-rights advocates contend that commercially bred dogs can be spared much of their misery with just the most basic improvements. "Do they have to be confined to cages 24 hours a day, bred with no limit on the number of litters and no required socialization with other dogs or with humans?" asks Josette Aramini, cofounder of the new United Against Puppy Mills group in Lancaster. The organization has worked to shutter large-scale breeders by petitioning local zoning boards to deny them permits...
...backboards and the props that the tech crew has built. While there are a few complicated props—such as actual portraits of the actors for the ghost scenes—that Tsurumi has to paint on her own, many of the cast members help with the more basic paint jobs during their three hours tech requirement.Simultaneously, in the pit, a small, close-knit orchestra patiently practices the musical score.“We’re supposed to be background to the actors—you’re not supposed to notice us,” says...
...started off on Jon Stewart / Basic cable is way in my past / Now that I’m box office brilliant / Money falls from...
...fundamental precondition for Google’s distributing printed material in this way—that, in the default situation, control remains firmly in the hands of the authors and publishers who own the copyrights of the books in question. Google’s opt-out proposition takes that basic control away from those to whom it rightfully belongs, compromising, in my non-expert estimation, the spirit—if not also the letter—of copyright laws...