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Many Russians will cheer the success of the rescue. But the Chechen raid may also kindle fierce debate about Putin's war. He rose to the presidency of Russia in 2000 on a promise to restore Moscow's grip on the rebellious republic of 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...
However impressive Neal Evans and Eric Krasno were, it was all held together by the funk, jazz and hip hop-driven beats of drummer Alan Evans. With a jazz-style grip on his sticks, he played with the intensity of a metal drummer, but with the touch of an old-school great. His energy was such that after the first song he shed his suit jacket because of the sweat he had worked up. In between songs, as he wiped his sticks down, he asked the crowd, “You all ready to get down...
First, it’s not very easy to drum up sympathy for a multi-billion dollar corporation of highly paid athletes whose tight grip on World Series’ rings had been loosened by a gang of overachievers working for Disney. Ben Stiller, I agree: it’s not easy being a eugogolizor...
...Indonesian Islam, but they appear to have been tolerated by a mainstream increasingly suspicious of U.S. intentions - an inclination shared by many Indonesian nationalists long hostile to agendas emanating from Washington. Megawati, like every Indonesian leader since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998, has a tenuous grip on power maintained through balancing the interests of rival political parties and the military. That has left her reluctant to engage in a battle that might turn even moderate Muslims against...
...stranglehold on power. Early returns, however, indicated a fundamentalist coalition, the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), was the unintended beneficiary of Musharraf's banning of past political powerhouses Benazir Bhutto and Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif from standing for office. The startling result calls into question Musharraf's grip on power and his ability to closely support America's war on terror...