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...Russia's most intriguing mysteries has added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and adolescent woman thought to be the 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, son of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas Romanov, and Alexei's sister, believed to be 19-year-old Maria. The remains -bone fragments, teeth, bullets and fragments of ceramic bottles supposedly used by the executioners to carry sulfuric acid to mutilate the bodies beyond recognition - have pushed Russian state prosecutors to re-launch a probe to investigate...
...Monday, a chapter was closed in the social history of New York City: a great dame, the arbiter of New York society, died without leaving any successors. Brooke Astor, who passed away at age 105, was a combination of the Victorian age, with all its wit and elegance, and of the modern era, with its sharp-minded determination. She had taste, discernment, character, compassion, and was extraordinarily generous. She ran a great salon where the meek and the mighty met as equals. She had a profound respect for democracy and believed, as I do, that democracy and excellence...
...July 27 in Detroit, the group held its second national convention, where it set out guidelines and a complex organizational hierarchy. The new SDSers opted for a horizontal structure with a national council made up of a single delegate from each chapter who will help facilitate decisions made on the local level. Another structure made up of a handful of different working groups will help decide everything from the specifics of next year's convention to coordinating action...
...tackle a host of anti-imperialist issues including the war in Iraq and concerns about the global economy, immigration and racism. SDS isn't just focusing on the U.S. "The military industrial complex is huge, of course," says Marisa Holmes, a School of the Art Institute of Chicago chapter member...
...allow workers to sleep on the premises. Once outside company property, miners were vulnerable to the paramilitaries, who are believed responsible for most of the 900 extra-judicial killings taking place every year in the country's continuing, decades-long civil war. And just as Drummond's local union chapter was involved in heated negotiations over wages and and compensation for workers killed in a mining accident, pamphlets appeared on Drummond property denouncing the union as a "guerrilla union" - regarded by the workers as a virtual death sentence to its leaders...