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...more than 100 journalists published an open letter of protest against what they said was pressure from the Kremlin to smear Vladimir Ryzhkov, an M.P. from Altai and an outspoken opponent of President Vladimir Putin. According to Valery Savinkov, editor-in-chief of the Altai news agency Bankfax, "A gentlemen from Moscow came [in October] to offer us big rewards should we do their bidding. When I turned him down, he said: 'You either share the bulldozer's driver seat with us or the bulldozer rolls over you.'" Savinkov says his next visitor was an officer from the FSB, Russia...
...most NBA players insist that they either ignore the abuse or use it as motivation. "The hostile arenas make the game fun," says New York Knicks guard Allan Houston. "They make you want to hit a big shot so you can silence them." Houston, one of the league's gentlemen, admits, "As a player, it's hard not to go after some people, but you have to be a bigger person than that. If you hold back, it makes them look bad. It puts the stain on them...
...What’s this clause trying to do, ladies and gentlemen? It’s a thou-shalt-not-invest clause,” she added...
...Wigglet. But cheap liquor in sweaty rooms leaves an aftertaste, driving many upperclassmen to more sophisticated venues. Increasingly, stores have become the answer to limited on-campus party space. The appeal? A setting less noisy than a bar, less typical than a sit-down dinner. Ladies and gentlemen, the bar has been raised—and moved to some unlikely places. FM offers up a few options for all aspiring P. Diddys...
...lack of food forced Caley to turn back. He'd succeeded, but his feat remains little known today, perhaps because, as his biographer Joan Webb suspects, the outspoken and independent ways of this son of an English horse-dealer didn't impress the colony's most powerful gentlemen. He left Sydney six years later, and despite writing of being consumed by his longing to see the mountains once more, never returned to Australia. Perhaps Caley would be comforted to know that, two centuries on, their wildness, and his prowess in steering through them, remain as stirring as ever...