Word: disrupter
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...Russian government announced that troops would begin patrolling railway stations as the country nears December 17 elections that boast a complicated lineup of 43 parties and 2,700 candidates. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that the government worries that Chechen rebels will try to disrupt the voting with bombings as part of their pledge to bring the Chechen war to Moscow. "The government made a very bad mistake, With Russian troops still in Chechnya, they decided to go ahead with not only national elections but also with local elections. The rebel fighters are not going to be very happy with...
...crisis in the arrangements for public service at Harvard. Indeed, during the review of 1994 we were told by many students and others that the support public service at Harvard was working well and did not require a major overhaul. Accordingly the modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program...
...town yesterday and did not see the students protest, but Lewis and Theda Skocpol, chair of the FAS committee on public service, sent a guest commentary to The Crimson yesterday in which they called the restructuring of public service and the hiring of Kidd "modest changes" which "should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program." (See commentary, page...
...tongue. He abandoned his supporters in July, angering the vast majority of them. Then, he reentered, did well at the first debate with his folksy humor and soared in the polls. But he undid himself again, declaring in a 60 Minutes interview that Republicans had plotted to disrupt his daughter's wedding. His momentum died...
...Fathi Shakaki. TIME's Johanna McGeary reports from Jerusalem: "The reason that no Israelis were killed is that the Israeli soldiers who were accompanying the bus noticed the first bomber's car and were able to prevent it from getting too close to the bus. These attempts shouldn't disrupt the peace process because there weren't a lot of dead Israelis, and you can be sure that both Rabin and Arafat are breathing a big sigh of relief because of that. But it does show that Jihad is still very capable of carrying out terrorism and that the threat...