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...sign for former Soviet states like Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where opposition calls for reforms have been repeatedly repressed. Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko put down a protest over the weekend, and some analysts believe the dominoes could even start falling in the Kremlin's direction, though Vladimir Putin's grip seems pretty secure. "Nobody rushed to defend Akayev," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "All these post-Soviet authoritarian regimes are proving colossuses with feet of clay...
...More than 3 million Zimbabweans - about a quarter of the entire population - have left their country, many in the past five years, as President Robert Mugabe has tightened his grip on power. In the first decade of independence from white rule, Zimbabwe boasted a vibrant developing economy and one of the best education systems in Africa. Those achievements have turned to dust. The economy is the fastest-shrinking in the world. Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have fled - across the borders to Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia, or to Australia, Britain, Canada and the U.S. But the vast majority - perhaps...
...beauty--not the one our culture programs us to appreciate," Nimoy says. As for Alley's autobiographical show, Fat Actress, "it's deplorable, dishonest and contrived," he says. "My models are proud people. [Alley is] lying on the floor crying." And that's before she gets the Vulcan death grip...
...Craig F. Rodgers, counselor and psychologist at the Bureau of Study Counsel, recognizes the dominating grip that the thesis has on many senior writers...
After three trips to Europe and visits to Jerusalem, Ramallah and Mexico City, Rice is taking her frequent-flyer diplomacy on a six-nation mission to Asia this week. Even skeptics who wrote off her early forays as standard grip-and-grin fare are beginning to pay attention. ("She's doing quite well because she's saying all those things that she and the President prevented [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell from saying for four years," says Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.) One important move: the U.S. agreeing to a plan forged...