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...These days 200,000 people live here. There are no shops, just muddy, improvised bazaars. There is little work. Some residents scavenge bricks from ruins for resale, others sell the crude oil that bubbles up in many backyards - oil is one of the main prizes being fought over in this war. Many thousands depend on handouts from the few international agencies working in the city. Grozny's mayor, Beslan Gantemirov - amnestied in 1999 from a Russian prison where he was serving six years for embezzling municipal reconstruction funds after the last Chechen war in the mid-'90s - is highly visible...
...Architects Roger Watts and Steve Tomkins have created an enormous (25-m-wide) proscenium stage set in a raked auditorium built of corrugated iron and steel girders. The white-brick bar area, bathed in green and red lights, has the quality of a nightclub - vibrant, raw and exciting...
...changes in the E.U.'s costly Common Agriculture Policy, which bases subsidies to beef producers on the number and weight of cows rather than how they are grown. She favors subsidies to farmers who make better environmental use of their land. In any case, she has run into a brick wall in Brussels: France has vetoed any changes to agricultural policy until after its 2002 presidential elections. At home, Künast has been forced to oppose E.U. agriculture chief Franz Fischler's efforts to cut subsidies for farms with more than 90 animals: the move could hurt...
Flip the dial to Harvard Radio WHRB 95.3 FM in Eliot, Winthrop or any other brick House on the river and it will most likely just come up static...
...station's transmitter is perched atop the Prudential Center--the tallest building in downtown Boston--but even so, the signal often gets fuzzy inside the University's brick walls. Asa result, many Harvard students cannot even hear the music broadcast from the basement of Pennypacker Hall by their own classmates...