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...fertilizer plant. This was strange, as the prosecutor's office had previously decided that there was no case to bring. About the same time, a senior Yukos security official was detained on suspicion of a double murder. Yukos representatives say neither man has been formally charged, and dismiss the allegations as spurious. Yet things got worse. Yukos offices were subject to a 16-hour raid, and last week the government announced it would review the firm's tax payments, a favorite harassment tactic. Rumors began circulating that another Yukos official, this time a top member of the board, would...
...Security Council may not be in a hurry to accept the credentials of the governing council.) Some Iraqis have welcomed the creation of the council as an important first step to restoring their sovereignty, even if they know little about the 25 people selected to represent them. Others, however, dismiss the body as simply an extension of the U.S. occupation. These include, of course, former Baathists and their supporters and also Islamist elements among the Sunni Arab population, but more worryingly, the increasingly militant Sadrist movement among the Shiite majority. While the Council has a Shiite majority and includes...
...course, funding a campaign from cyberspace is not new, nor is it any guarantee of success. John McCain and Bill Bradley raised $2.5 million and $1.6 million from their respective sites in 2000. And while candidates like Kerry and Joe Lieberman are emulating Dean's online play, others dismiss it as elitist. "I don't think average Joes are on the Internet using their credit cards to give you $25," scoffs Gephardt campaign official Steve Elmendorf...
Returning to New York, I’d say that most Harvard students I know from the city—along with those who happen to be working and living in New York for the summer—dismiss New Jersey as only marginally nicer than the seventh concentric circle of Dante’s Inferno. To be sure, often when I hang out in Manhattan with a Harvard friend, he or she gives me a really sad, sympathetic look when I tell them that I should be getting home. (It’s sort of like the look your...
...fact, Rumsfeld may have inadvertently hit on a significant analogy when, to dismiss "quagmire" fears, he compared Iraq with Eastern Europe in the wake of communism. Saddam's Iraq was certainly more akin to a Stalinist regime than any Arab autocracy. But the difference between it and post-Soviet Russia is that Iraq right now is wholly owned by the U.S. If the U.S. military had been occupying Russia in the wake of communism's collapse, the situation might have been quite different: Like post-Soviet Russians, Iraqis suddenly find themselves enjoying unprecedented freedom to speak their minds. But like...