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...rather starry-eyed belief that if Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his circle fall from grace, change will come immediately and Russia will morph into Europe. For years, the opposition movement's strategy has been to rub away at Putin's credibility "like drops of water on a cinderblock," as one of its leading figures, Boris Nemtsov, puts it. For most of that time, the impact of their work has fit this analogy. In the past few weeks, though, signs of something new have begun to emerge. Regular Russians, not just the usual crew of activists, have been coming...
After Christine Ross moved into a brand new home on the southwestern fringe of Albuquerque last fall, she and her three-year-old sharpei-labrador mix, Ruca, went for a walk nearly every evening. Usually, they would venture inside a cinderblock wall where the spiny desert scrub had been smoothed over in preparation for a housing development that never materialized. That's where they were walking a month ago when Ruca spotted what to a dog is considered a treasure: a bone jutting from the sandy soil. Ross had an uneasy feeling about the find, however. She snapped a photograph...
...second half of the play consists entirely of Max and Horst (Peter C. Shields ’09) carrying cinderblock “rocks” back and forth from one side of the stage to the other with no apparent purpose...
With over 18 million inhabitants, Mumbai has a population density four times that of New York City, and fully half of these inhabitants are homeless. Millions live in fetid, decaying slum metropolises without running water or electricity. Only rudimentary cinderblock and aluminum sheet dwellings protect these impoverished masses from monsoon rainfalls and a sweltering...
...PTSA, which was launched last October, is the first in the nation to be associated with a juvenile reformatory school; its membership is made up mostly of teachers, guards and officials at the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center, where the school is located and the teens live in secured cinderblock cottages. Only one parent has paid her $6 annual dues, but Murphy has heard from others who plan to sign up during the official PTSA kickoff meeting at an open house at the school this Friday...