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...successful mission would have generated for the Hilton the kind of lurid publicity that another upscale Mayfair hotel recently garnered. It was in the nearby Millennium Hotel, last November, that Berezovsky's former employee Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian-born British citizen, drank tea contaminated with the radioactive isotope polonium-210, which killed him. British investigators identified as their prime suspect Andrei Lugovoi, like Litvinenko, a former kgb man. Moscow has turned down London's request for Lugovoi's extradition...
...London and Moscow is taking place in a more confusing world. As the Kremlin prepares to take the inevitable retaliatory action against Britain, the motivations of the main players appear mixed. Britain lodged the extradition request for Lugovoi knowing that the Russian constitution rules out the extradition of Russian citizens. The government anticipated this would create an impasse but says the murder on British soil of a British citizen demanded action. The Kremlin, for its part, has been at pains to improve its image abroad, hiring U.S. and British public-relations consultants to help. Yet the country has grown increasingly...
...unknowns that worry regulators and experts. "Yesterday's quake showed that assumptions and suppositions that safety standards are based on are completely false," says Baku Nishio, a co-director at Citizen's Nuclear Information Center. "Japan is simply too quake-bound to operate nuclear plants." There's also uncertainty about where the next quake will strike. The Kashiwazaki facility underwent a tectonic survey last year to reevaluate the site's quake resistency and update it in accordance with new government guidelines. That survey concluded there were no active faults in the vicinity...
...Despite China's size and heterogeneity, it's easy to buy into the myth of a monolithic state. That myth is burnished by central government in Beijing, and also by the common habit among its citizens of starting a sentence with the phrase, "We Chinese..." Every citizen knows that their glorious homeland boasts 5,000 years of history - a fact that regularly gets repeated when a reporter from a mere pup of a nation 231 years old gets too uppity...
...third year of a three-year term and attends up to three meetings a year,” Reardon wrote. “Rocky has been a good citizen in his involvements with the Harvard Alumni Association...