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...Moscow has helpfully suggested that its own authorities investigate the crime - an offer met with skepticism in Britain, given that Litvinenko, on his deathbed, blamed the Kremlin itself for his fate. His accusation has fed fears that Russia increasingly operates by its own rules. That's a view promulgated by billionaire Boris Berezovsky, an opponent of President Vladimir Putin. Some Russians believe in another conspiracy: that Berezovsky, who has claimed asylum in Britain since 2000, engineered Litvinenko's murder to embarrass Putin. Berezovsky strongly rejects these claims and has donated $1 million to a foundation set up by Litvinenko...
...fear of a harmless gathering of university students on university property. It’d be naïve for me to be. I know racism exists—not among all, but among enough that its occurrence is of little surprise. Despite what we’re fed by mass media, racism is racism, college campus or otherwise...
...traditional heritage of cider and make effective use of classic rock songs like Donovan's Sunshine Superman. Premium ciders have also benefited by offering an appealing alternative to beer at a time when the public is fortuitously tiring of alcopops - sweet, soda-like drinks laced with alcohol. "People were fed up with things that looked confected and artificial," says Simon Russell, spokesman for the National Association of Cider Makers...
...Wimbledon), only to fade fast. But tease or not, the game's most compelling personality--hip, brash, beautiful--is once again part of the conversation, which tends to be lively when Serena is talking. "She's a complicated person," notes Zina Garrison, Serena's coach on the U.S. Fed Cup team. "And the world is intrigued with people that they can't quite figure...
...disaffected or just plain lazy students with Internet access and a credit card or money order. But just as the Internet has made it easier for kids to cheat, it's also helping high schools and colleges ferret out the flimflammers. Every day more than 100,000 papers are fed into Turnitin.com a plagiarism-detection site that compares each submission with billions of Web pages, tens of thousands of journals and periodicals and a growing archive of some 40 million student papers. More than 7,000 educational institutions use the system, including Harvard and Oxford. But while Turnitin lets faculty...