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...Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia will halt inspections and verifications of its military sites by NATO countries and will no longer limit the number of its conventional weapons. Russia, however, had already halted such verification visits after a CFE treaty conference held in Vienna last month turned a deaf ear to Russia's complaints; military delegations from Bulgaria and Hungary had been denied entry to Russian military units. Also last month, Russia turned down an invitation to take part in joint exercises with the U.S., Romania and Bulgaria. General Vladimir Shamanov, particularly notorious for aggressive tactics in Chechnya...
...minute standing ovation.) Her rise seemed inevitable. Witty, smart, tough and down-to-earth, the ebullient performer--nicknamed Bubbles--became a fine-arts ambassador, guest-hosting the Tonight Show and performing with the Muppets. She also raised funds for special-needs kids (her son is autistic, her daughter deaf). After retiring from the stage in 1980, she led such institutions as City Opera and the Met, democratizing opera by staging contemporary productions and introducing supertitles. Sills, who was told in June she had lung cancer...
...open markets and flexibility and free trade, you give people the chance to benefit from a global economy." Sarkozy comes from a French tradition that is far warier of the outside world and more inclined to state intervention. In his victory speech, he urged European leaders "not to remain deaf to the anger of the people who view the European Union not as a protection, but as the Trojan horse for all the threats that are contained in the transformations of the world...
...collect the intelligence to help that policy succeed." It was an arrogant statement that masked a larger reality. In many cases we were not aware of what our own government was trying to do. The one thing we were certain of was that our warnings were falling on deaf ears...
...Earth.” Since Ogryzkov does not use earplugs, Hester said he was “a real bell ringer.” Responding with the help of a translator, Ogryzkov replied, “I might not only become a real bell ringer, but also a real deaf person.” Besides teaching the mechanics of ringing the bells, Ogryzkov spoke about the liturgical origins of one of the bells’ odd nicknames. According to Ogryzkov, the bell known as “Famine, Pestilence, and Despair,” was likely rung during the hard...