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...take over Chechnya. Radical guerrillas scorned him for his desire to negotiate with the Russians. Many ordinary Chechens reviled him as the cause of their misery. Now, Maskhadov has become a martyr for Islam and his beleaguered nation, and his death could lead to a further escalation of the brutal war with Russia. No one in Chechnya dared openly mark Maskhadov's death; at least eight of his relatives disappeared last December, according to local and national press reports, in an apparent effort by the pro-Russian Chechen administration to force his surrender. But there are signs of a groundswell...
...those of you who haven’t been tuning in, the 27-year-old Arulpragasam comes with a bio that a press-release scribe would kill for. She fled her native Sri Lanka at 11, a refugee from that small island’s brutal civil war, which her estranged father helped wage as a leading militant...
...keeping emerging economies from imploding due to their own domestic consumption collapse, high debt, and excess production capacity. Our consumption was fueled first by a strong domestic stock market, and when that gave way, by falling interest rates and ample liquidity supplied by the Fed. Still, we suffered a brutal bear market and a recession before things began to improve in early...
...political crimes. (After the Cultural Revolution, both Deng Xiaoping and Zhao had their verdicts reversed.) But the Party's historical forgetting has tended to be selective and opportunistic. Not to be so readily forgotten (or forgiven) is the predatory history of the West toward China or Japan's brutal occupation of the country. These the Party tirelessly remembers and flogs, because it serves its purposes...
...Quakers bogged down the game with 26 fouls, 17 of which came during a brutal second half...