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...feelings, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is not exactly bashful. After flying last week from Moscow to the city of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia's bad-boy politician was dismayed to be confronted at the airport by demonstrators calling him a fascist. The chairman of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party does not brook such displays of disrespect. With an entourage of 20 people, including several menacing bodyguards, he paid a visit to the office of the region's most prominent politician, Boris Nemtsov -- only to be informed that the governor was out of town...
...would be a mistake to dismiss the computer-message boards or to underestimate the effect a lifetime of dashing off E-mail will have on a generation of young writers. The computer networks may not be Brook Farm or the Globe Theatre, but they do represent, for millions of people, a living, breathing life of letters. One suspects that the Bard himself, confronted with the Internet, might have dived right in and never logged...
...Phoebe Brook, chair of the Harvard Square Advisory Committee, thinks the golden arches would create traffic problems. Yet it's common knowledge that drivers of all creeds avoid the Square like savory baked tofu. Hungry drivers would easily opt for Porter Square burgers...
...Army's efforts to curb such violence -- through counseling and other help -- are rarely mandatory. That, says the study, leads to two critical failings: few soldiers take advantage of the help, and the worst abusers don't participate. Researcher Peter Neidig, whose company, Behavioral Science Associates in Stony Brook, New York, is conducting the Army survey, believes similar levels of domestic abuse exist in the other services. While Neidig believes the Army is ahead of the civilian world in confronting the issue, Army officials admit they are only starting to understand the extent of the problem. "We were being very...
with no offense to the Athletic Director, who has a fine schnozz and should brook no this subject. (Besides, he's won a national championship both on the ice and behind the bench--which is much more than almost any team at this school can boast...