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...blackmail at least one famous Russian oligarch with the many secrets he was collecting--or sell them to newspapers. Yegor Gaidar, a Prime Minister in the early 1990s and now an occasional critic of Putin's, came to the President's assistance last week when describing how he had fallen violently ill from an apparent poisoning in Dublin on the day Litvinenko died. Writing in the Financial Times, Gaidar concluded "that some obvious or hidden adversaries of the Russian authorities stand behind the scenes of this event, those who are interested in further radical deterioration of relations between Russia...
...Julie Chu and sophomore center Sarah Vaillancourt.Though the senior captain could be seen at times favoring her left leg because of a sprained right ankle, she managed to maintain her nation-high points per game average.Outshooting Providence 13-2 in the first period, Harvard showed that it had not fallen into the doldrums in two winless games after an eight-game win streak.“I thought we played with some energy,” Stone said. “We’re playing a little banged up, but the kids did a good job mentally...
...Meanwhile, to replace the hundreds of fighters fallen in the last conflict, Hizballah is recruiting eager new volunteers; the best of them are heading to Iran for further war training, according to Israeli sources and Western diplomats in Beirut. Hizballah leaders are also trying to figure out how to do a better job of hiding their long-range missiles; nearly all of their last supply was destroyed by Israeli aircraft in the opening days...
...Assk caf, right on the waterfront, with her friend Lerna Tutunciyan, 29, who works as a production assistant. Talk turned to head scarves, a particularly thorny issue given Turkish history. (While the traditional male Islamic headgear, the fez, was banned by law in 1925, the head scarf had simply fallen out of use.) Yesilada, who loves to mix Marc Jacobs and Gucci with TopShop pieces, thinks that head scarves should be tolerated. "After all, I wear hats. But I get concerned when I see someone veiled in black," she adds. "That's just not what this country...
...sculptures demonstrate techniques of the highest level of glassmaking, and his most recent collection is no exception. Soft Explosion comprises six designs and an ongoing series of one-of-a-kind objects, including vases reminiscent of growing trees, bowls resembling splashing water and a limited-edition centerpiece of fallen forms that symbolize a forest path. The glassmakers at Steuben gave each Soft Explosion piece, inspired by nature, an individual personality, so that they are similar but never identical. Just as Mother Nature would have...