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Until this month, the Russian presidential campaign was an occasionally amusing but tightly scripted show. Comic relief was provided by independent candidate Sergei Mironov, who repeatedly stressed his support for the incumbent, President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the Kremlin-dominated media gave Putin blanket - and predictably positive - coverage. Then the script took a sinister turn: first, a suicide bomber killed over 40 people in the Moscow metro; Putin blamed Chechen separatists. Immediately after, it emerged that Ivan Rybkin, an opposition presidential candidate who, like most Putin challengers, is polling in the single digits, had disappeared. Just the week before, Rybkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One of Our Candidates Is Missing | 2/15/2004 | See Source »

...Harvard adopted a blanket policy on internal recruiting, which stated that the University could not discriminate in its own hiring practices. But the University has never adopted such a policy for outside recruiters, and since 2002, when the Department of Defense implemented a stricter enforcement of the Solomon Amendment, the military has been allowed to recruit...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Ask Summers for Uniform Recruiting Policy | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...Harvard can’t hide behind saying that its various schools can make up their own policy about recruiting when the central administration in 1990 decided to issue a blanket nondiscrimination policy,” Parry said...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Ask Summers for Uniform Recruiting Policy | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...conventional vehicles. "For a night on the town it's a bit of a lark," says a London theatergoer who clambered into one on a recent evening for the short ride to a nearby restaurant. Passengers are partially exposed to the elements, so many pedicabs come equipped with a blanket for cold, rainy nights. Rickshaw rides aren't cheap, though. In London, where most pedicab drivers ply their trade among the winding streets of the West End theater and entertainment district, a trip for two from Waterloo Bridge to Soho will run you about $20. In Paris, where rickshaws also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pedal Power Comes West | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...vehicles. "For a night on the town it's a bit of a lark," says a London theater-goer who clambered into one on a recent evening for the short ride to a nearby restaurant. Passengers are partially exposed to the elements, so many pedicabs come equipped with a blanket for cold, rainy nights. Rickshaw rides aren't cheap, though. In London, where most pedicab drivers ply their trade among the winding streets of the West End theater and entertainment district, a trip for two from Waterloo Bridge to Soho will run you about $20. In Paris, where rickshaws also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pedal Power Comes West | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

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