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...bill’s passage by a margin of more than two to one is worrying. This is another weakly-resisted step towards the curtailment of the Russian press, a long-term trend that has recently gained vitality with 15-hour television blackouts, raids on newspapers on orders of dubious legality from the Russian Press Ministry. Russian authorities, infamous for selective enforcement of certain laws, will undoubtedly find a broad interpretation of these new provisions useful in regular government crackdowns...
...friends have not let me forget the irony in the fact that I dropped out of one so-called ‘corrupt’ institution, and joined an even more dubious one: the Republican Party of New Jersey,” Alex Forrester writes in an e-mail...
...presided over some of the agency's most controversial operations during the Vietnam War and Watergate eras; in Washington. The famously secretive spy master plotted to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende and assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro with, among other things, poisoned cigars. Domestically, Helms headed a legally dubious scheme to spy on anti--Vietnam War activists. Fired by President Nixon for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate break-in, he was later found guilty of covering up spy operations in Cuba and Chile to congressional investigators. The conviction, Helms said, was "like a badge of honor...
...even if these videos were balanced portrayals of Muslim life in America, very few Pakistanis, Indonesians or Saudis would believe them. The distinct anti-American atmosphere in much of the Islamic world, coupled with the dubious nature of the content, will compel most to pass these saccharine shows off as propaganda pieces. Skeptical foreigners wary of United States intervention around the world won’t all of a sudden trust the state department because, in place of a heavy-set balding white man, an olive-skinned American in a headscarf tells them that we’re really...
...prodding we also paid a visit to the famous Aurora spa, hoping to experience one of Issyk-Kul's other attractions: the mud bath. But it was not to be. On offer instead were such dubious delights as "lavage of the stomach" and "urological prostate massage." This might be Boris Yeltsin's cup of tea. But for us, the beach beckoned...