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...work. As our convoy drives up to the Gudermes administrative office with its fake Greek columns, we are met by a crowd of local citizens. We assume they have been bused in to voice their support and enthusiasm for the Russian presence. In fact, they have come to complain. Russian troops--in particular the special assignment police unit, a heavily militarized unit with a reputation for excessive muscle--have been looting the place. "They stole my car yesterday," yells one man in the crowd. "The soldiers steal cattle, spare parts. They get drunk at night and shoot up the town...
...Peak burnout time is now--the Bureau of Study Counsel calendars are full with students who complain about uncharacteristic exhaustion and lack of motivation. Recognizing the signs early, he writes, can stop this burnout before it becomes debilitating...
...will learn just what the Aggie Bonfire was about when we can get our entire student body together to do something other than complain. If you want to find out for yourself, go to a basketball game in the Cage this week, go see the Kroks sing their hearts out, or go see an incredibly pretentious lecture...
...Meanwhile, the opposition-run areas complain that the state-run oil company refuses to give them any fuel at all. And Belgrade is saying it has solved the heating problem in the rest of the country by making deals with Slovakia and Iraq, exchanging Serbian copper, food and medicine for Slovak electricity and Saddam Hussein's oil. In the end, it seems that the people most likely to shiver this winter are the ones who voted against Milosevic...
...measure on the second front. A TIME investigation found that little if any of the $8 million Congress has already appropriated (in Economic Support Funds, separate from the Liberation Act money) to oust Saddam has ended up directly in the hands of Iraqi opposition groups. Rather, Capitol Hill investigators complain, much of the money has gone to high-priced public relations experts and consultants. A somewhat less than ferocious outfit called Quality Support Inc., of Springfield, Va., for example, has received $3.1 million to book hotel rooms, airline tickets and conference halls for opposition meetings. Of that, a State Department...