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...Chechnya. For the past two years, he regularly claimed victory was all but won. As the champion of order and stability, Putin enjoyed strong public standing, while the government's harsh censorship of news from the war zone nearly a thousand miles from the capital has kept the grim realities of the stalemated conflict off the front pages and out of the minds of ordinary Russians. Now the brazen takeover of a theater just three miles from the Kremlin has brought the vicious struggle right to their doorstep...
...John Allen Muhammad is convicted of these crimes, it will be a grim epilogue to a life spent groping for a narrative. First in the military and then in two marriages, Muhammad, a man who could be by turns charming and stern, seemed to find contentment just out ofreach. And each time he faced a loss, he would fight back--frantically, mercilessly--for control. Two ex-wives have accused him of taking their children over the years. A court granted one of his ex-wives a permanent restraining order after he allegedly threatened to kill her. Acquaintances say he manipulated...
...that freaked me out the most." He asked Jazz, who is half black, about his ethnicity. Parks told him not to question the boy again, and the relationship chilled. Says Parks: "He would sit there and watch me. He stopped saying hi, and he got grim. I'd wave, but he gave me the willies. I'd look over, and he'd stare...
...months ago, the state of the TV networks seemed grim. For the first time during a regular television season, cable's basic channels had collectively passed the six broadcast networks in their share of the prime-time audience. Ad spending--down for all media since the start of the recession--seemed unlikely to do much to improve the picture. Some industry analysts were predicting that when the so-called up-front market began--the period in May and June when major advertisers reserve the bulk of their commercial time for the upcoming TV season--the networks would be lucky...
...fall of 2000 by the Austrian humanitarian organization Concordia, is a radical departure from Romania's notorious system of institutional care. Until about a decade ago, tens of thousands of Romanian children lived in large dormitory-style buildings, where they were starved of food, medical care and affection. Those grim places are slowly dying out, supplanted by group-home alternatives such as Casa Austria. It is a brightly painted two-story structure for just 30 kids - a maximum of four to a room - and has none of the impersonal chill of a large state institution. It has a playground, plenty...