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...Moscow. For 24 hours, the rebels besieged Nalchik, leaving terrified inhabitants with nothing but wildly inaccurate reports from the official media to explain what was going on. By the time local security forces and reinforcements from neighboring republics regained control, the city of 250,000 bore all the grim scars of urban warfare: bodies sprawled on sidewalks, in back alleys and outside apartment blocks and official buildings. Kids roamed the streets collecting shell casings. "We never thought this would happen here," says Anastasia Zaitseva, whose workplace, a hotel opposite the Federal Security Service (fsb) headquarters, was on the front line...
Having written plays with cheery names like The Birthday Party and The Lover that are in fact the opposite of cheery, HAROLD PINTER, 75, could be thought of as a bit of a downer. But there was nothing grim about his reaction to the news that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The playwright told reporters he was "bowled over" by the $1.3 million award. He didn't mean it literally; the wound on his head came from a recent fall. Here's hoping we'll finally get a Pinteresque award-acceptance speech. Nothing says elation like tense...
...widow and an unmanned U. S. soldier. His title is borrowed from Ecclesiastes; his motto about "a lost generation, is from Gertrude Stein; his widow Lady Brett Ashley, from Michael Arlen's Green Hat. She is repeatedly called "a nice piece," and "a good chap." She has a grim wit and not a shred of reticence The hero failing, her other men ar many, including a Princeton Jew and a Spanish bullfighter. The story, such as it is, comes from the eunuch, Jake, who is very generous, patient, clever and, of course very...
...emission of carbon dioxide is a “human experiment,” studying greenhouse gases should be treated like studying the effects of an experiment instead of a natural occurrence. While the exhibit itself invites visitors to draw their own conclusion, Schrag has already developed a somewhat grim prognosis. While he said that scientists do not yet have all the answers, he suggested that the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere in recent decades could have dire consequences on the global environment, such as warmer weather, which would lead to more virulent hurricanes. Schrag’s research...
...There are several reasons for this. The phenomenon of suicide bombers has become a grim new reality in the region, and it's here to stay. During the Suharto years, Indonesian authorities clamped down on any challenge to the state. Now the country is more open and democratic, but an unwelcome consequence is that militants have a freer run of the place. Al-Qaeda still provides money, trainers and technology to Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) and to militant Philippine groups like Abu Sayyaf. And Iraq, where Muslims are dying and suffering, continues to inspire Islamic extremists. If the Americans lose...