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...fence-mending exercise. "The last meeting between the two sides was disastrous because Russian officials started shouting that they wouldn't be treated like a developing country," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "But if you don't want to be treated that way, you shouldn't beg for money. So this time, Primakov provided an example of how to deal with someone on whom you depend...
...impinge on the environment, both of whom are unable to negotiate their own terms. A few people with toothpicks, often from privileged institutions like Harvard, have been afforded the luxury of fine-tuning these margins of the system, to keep the stray negative elements in line. I would beg them not to take the vast positive mass of that system, which enables this luxury in the first place, for granted...
...attraction at the Midwest Grill is the rodizio, (Portugese for "rotation") the unique Brazilian barbecue banquet. Here's how it works: waiters go around from table to table brandishing gigantic skewers of different kinds of barbecued meat. They slice you as much you want and keep coming until you beg surrender. There is also a buffet spread of traditional Brazilian dishes and dessert which is included in the rodizio but can also be ordered separately at a lesser price. You can also order individual appetizers and entrees on the menu, but for hard core carnivores, there is no question that...
...radio. You'd scarcely realize from the jubilant disco drums and the syncopated keyboard touches that the song was actually about wretched abjection, the ways we degrade ourselves for love. Lead singer Nina Persson might have sounded impossibly glamorous, but she was still "cry[ing], pray[ing] and beg[ging]" as a pathetic, deflated masochist. Far from the weightless retro nugget it resembled, "Lovefool" used its radiant hooks to the most perverse of aims, like a tootsie roll pop with an acid core. Not bad for a band too often pigeonholed as mild candy for the "Easy Listening" dustbin...
While the kids are playing Cell Mates, Kurtzberg spends part of her afternoon sorting through the dozens of pleas she receives daily from frightened parents and suffering children. A fax lying on her desk today is from a Russian boy. "I beg you to help me," it reads in part. "I don't want...