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...Russian political interference and dioxin poisoning to win the 2004 Orange Revolution in dramatic fashion, but he may now be losing the political war of attrition to hold on to power in Ukraine. On Monday night, Yushchenko, as President of Ukraine, ordered the dissolution of his country's single-chamber parliament, the Rada, to make way for elections in late May. However, the Rada, dominated by his opponents, refused to follow the order and the controversy is now headed for the country's Constitutional Court. In almost theatrical fashion, the man standing to benefit from it all is Yushchenko...
...side tunnel was shielded with white steel plates and girders, which led into a small steel-walled chamber. The room, which was bare apart from two empty five-gallon water containers, must have been at least 100 feet underground, and could probably have withstood a direct hit by a heavy bomb. A power cable along the walls linked several bare bulbs, while a black plastic bag hanging from a hook contained the remnants of what last summer could have been fresh oranges or apples...
...hundred yards away we found two rocket firing positions, one of them located in a 15-foot deep pit with reinforced concrete walls. A tunnel at the rear wall doglegged after a few feet into a small chamber lined with panels from wooden ammunition boxes where the rockets would have been stored. The second post consisted of a foot-thick reinforced concrete frame smothered with sandbags and camouflage netting and bolstered by Hesco blast protection walls. Even from a few yards up the hill, the position was all but invisible. And during the war, Hizballah gunners had tossed fire-retardant...
Books became a backdrop Thursday night at Houghton Library, ceding their spotlight to the latest installment in the Library’s Chamber Music Series: “Post-Romantik...
...surprising diversity of musical style was showcased in Paine Hall Friday night during the Ying Quartet’s latest performance in the Blodgett Chamber Music Series. Comprised of siblings Timothy (violin), Janet (violin), David (cello), and Phillip (viola), the Department of Music’s Blodgett Artists-in-Residence successfully displayed their virtuoso abilities in the performance through a selection of pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paul Moravec ’79, and Ernst von Dohn?...