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...minority, then this feeling took over the majority," he says. "The same will happen with democracy. It's the minority who start." Throughout lunch, a plainclothes cop is standing by the window outside. "He is a police major," says Statkevich. "Not a bad guy, but he has to follow the kgb orders." A kgb of the old school is just part of what makes Lukashenko's Belarus such a throwback to the Soviet past. Statkevich is not the only opposition leader doing time: in the last decade, at least 4,000 citizens have been imprisoned on political charges. Under...
...Americans evidenced good intent and a timetable for withdrawal we feel is genuine, we will stand up against al-Zarqawi," says Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars. "We already stood up against him on the Shi'ite issue, and if he doesn't follow us, it will be a bad path for him." Baathist insurgent leader Abu Yousif, who has met with U.S. intelligence officers, says, "The insurgency is looking for a political outlet--once we have that, we could control al-Qaeda...
DIED. THOMAS DAWBER, 92, dynamic first director of the watershed Framingham Heart Study, named after the Massachusetts town where the Federal Government in 1948 started trying to identify the causes of heart disease; in Naples, Fla. Dawber recruited 5,209 healthy men and women to follow in a long-term study that led to key findings, including those in a 1961 landmark paper that isolated such "risk factors" (a term Dawber coined) for heart disease as high blood pressure and high-cholesterol levels. A few years later, he rescued the Framingham study--which the government was considering shutting down...
...story, junior running back Clifton Dawson has begun to assess the prospects of joining his former quarterback on the sport’s biggest stage.Harvard coach Tim Murphy said that he and Dawson have discussed the process of wooing potential NFL suitors, and that the two of them will follow the same approach that got Fitzpatrick noticed following his junior season at Harvard. The two of them will likely put together a highlight reel of Dawson’s most outstanding plays for the Crimson and send it to every NFL team.But above that, it will be the running back?...
...sophomore course Social Studies 10 last year, knows how to talk philosophy without putting his audience to sleep. Shelby’s writing style, although very methodical in its presentation and analysis of previous calls for African-American unity, has a compelling, discursive tone that compels readers to eagerly follow his argument over the course of 256 pages...