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...Until the beginning of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, Grozny was one of the most livable places in the Caucasus. The climate was mild, the surrounding countryside spectacular, and fruit, grapes, wine and dairy products abundant. There was a cosmopolitan population of over half a million: Russians, Chechens, Armenians, Azeris, Jews and other peoples of the Caucasus. Now Grozny is more like a post-nuclear nightmare, a city systematically leveled by the Russian military campaign that propelled Vladimir Putin to the presidency a year ago, where gunfire and explosions are still so common that they blend...
...Freeh's persistent complaints to Justice Department headquarters finally bore fruit this week, when Acting Deputy Attorney General Robert Mueller pulled the case and gave it to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia at Freeh's request - prompting Lewis' fiery comments, which were not exactly the norm for a federal official...
...happy and partake, except of the forbidden fruit, has always been a hard message to swallow," writes David Courtwright in Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, in an attempt to summarize a potentially fatal flaw of human nature. Courtwright examines every historical detail of the development of drugs: their discovery, whether accidental or man-made, and their evolution and use in society. He cleverly toys with our present-day notion of the term "drug," examining a range of products that includes the illegal substances such as cocaine, marijuana, opium, as well as certain legalized substances...
...Stale fruit and stale cereal...
...Force One weren't even true, though they should have been. I was on Air Force One for one flight 3 1/2 years ago, and I'm still eating those M&M's with the White House insignia on the box. I grabbed everything I could: cards, napkins, fruit and, in a fit of glee, Helen Thomas. After eight years, it was only natural that the Clintons got attached to certain items, such as sofas, an ottoman, a needlepoint rug and absolute power...