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...white by its newly created high and mighty. If Moscow wants justice done in Gusinsky's case, for example, why is he being accused now of what he allegedly did back in 1996? Because back in 1996 he was moving with the tide and supporting Putin's predecessor and benefactor, Boris Yeltsin. If Moscow wants justice done to Berezovsky for his alleged misdemeanors of the 1990s, why was he given an influential official position with the powerful Security Council back then, rather than hauled into court? Could it be that, just as in the 1930s, those accused will be prosecuted...
...CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD: Forget all those lurid statistics constantly peddled by the Goody-Two-Shoes lobby about the common cold's toll of billions of lost man-hours. See it in human terms: the common cold is a godsend, the greatest benefactor to the working stiff since the advent of the boring job. It's technically an illness; in reality it's a universally acceptable excuse to declare yourself hors de combat and take a day off from work. Wipe out the common cold and you rob millions of Americans per week of their sacred rights not only...
...first half and the first drive of the second half, Harvard was the benefactor of football's divine providence. A clear example would be on the first drive of the game, when Rose found Farley over the middle of the field for a huge gain. Farley was then stripped by Cornell cornerback Jimmy Vattes and the ball skipped all the way to the 2-yard line, where a fortuitous bounce left it in the lap of junior wide receiver Sam Taylor. The Crimson scored two plays later...
...reason. The U.S.-led, 16-nation ISS had been on hold for two years while the cash-poor Russians tried to scare up the funds to get the module built and launched. It was only with an infusion of dollars from Washington--as well as from so capitalist a benefactor as Pizza Hut, which bought advertising space on the side of the Zvezda booster--that the job was completed. Zvezda now joins the Zarya and Unity modules, which have been in orbit since 1998, forming the centerpiece of a massive 360-ft.-long, 460-ton space liner...
...Benefactor Edward Waldo Forbes, who would one day become curator of Harvard's Fogg Museum, formed a secret holding company called Riverside Associates that bought for Harvard nearly all of the land that was to be known as "South Yard." In an effort to reverse the trend toward living off-campus, Lowell commissioned four dorms for first-year students on the newly-acquired lands: Gore, Standish, McKinlock and Smith Halls. Ground was broken in 1914. With the eruption of the First World War, the Gold Coast apartments suddenly became unprofitable to manage. Harvard immediately bought them and had no difficulty...