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...protesters on the streets on July 1, when about 500,000 actually turned out. How, they have asked, could a government be so out of touch with popular sentiment?and how could they have so badly botched the selling of Article 23? Perhaps in search of a sympathetic ear, Tung requested a meeting with Jiang Zemin, the man responsible for Tung's appointment...
...confident hands-on image that Putin projects to the world - and which Russia's tightly controlled electronic media transmit daily to its citizens - the President is a tentative leader who almost four years after taking office has still not created his own team. Instead, two factions compete for his ear. The Petersburg group - which Pavlovsky describes as consisting of "bureaucratic populists" - is viewed as ideologically hostile to the big private corporations that control much of Russia's natural resources. Some members of the group, Pavlovsky adds, probably also want a cut of the businesses themselves. The other faction is known...
...Raina appears as an Angel and the Song of Solomon is sung in Craig's ear...
...there are strains. Despite Franklin's repeated entreaties, she refuses to join him overseas, perhaps as wary of hobnobbing with his highly placed friends as of ocean voyages. During his absences, she acts as postmistress, oversees the building of a larger house and turns a deaf ear to attacks by Franklin's political rivals. When Stamp Act rioters threaten her house, Deborah and her brother face them...
...drown in self-pity when those familiar notes caught my ear...