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...Putin's use of those energy resources, combined with his continuing crackdown on free speech and civil society in Russia itself, have provoked some dismay and led many observers at home and abroad to wonder in what direction he is taking his country. In January, the Kremlin briefly cut off gas supplies to neighboring Ukraine, ostensibly because of a dispute over prices. Ukraine saw the move as an attack on its pro-Western leader, President Viktor Yushchenko. That sent a chill through Europe and brought a public rebuke from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. In December, Russia threatened...
...Iraq, these young men may live only slightly longer than their fire. When a President declares war, he should have the courage to fight it. Bush's cowardly refusal to reinstate the draft and put more boots on the ground has thrown Iraq into a civil war. I pray Gates has the courage to admit defeat and bring our troops home. HELEN TACKETT Fullerton, Calif...
...CIVIL WAR n. Not a new term, but Iraq's deteriorating "sectarian violence"--to use President George W. Bush's preferred phrase--had people asking...
...gmail account. Now, recent allegations of a Google-CIA link may have you worried about those revolutions you’ve been planning with your blockmates, but with a little caution, there’s no reason not to make the switch in perfect confidence that your civil liberties will remain intact. Not only will gmail provide you with the holy grail of internet communications—an absolutely spotless inbox, but its system of filters will allow you to divert those troublesome “academic” e-mails into a special folder, where they need never trouble...
Some ghastly things happened in 2006?the horrors of all-against-all war in Iraq, the rubble of Lebanon, the foiled plot to blow airliners out of the sky over the Atlantic, the slow throttling of civil liberties and freedom of expression in Russia, genocide in Darfur, continuing repression from Burma to Zimbabwe. All seemed grim, and grimly familiar. Was there nothing to lighten the gloom...