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...Indeed, they're pulling the plug on the reactor just as they're going into a harsh winter. Do they have an alternative energy source to replace the power they're losing from Chernobyl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chernobyl Is Closed, But for How Long? | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...journalist Georgy Gongadze, who was very critical of Kuchma and is believed to have been kidnapped and killed. Several days ago the speaker of parliament revealed a tape recording made by a former bodyguard of Kuchma, which supposedly has the president meeting with senior officials and demanding in very harsh language that the journalist be killed. Opposition politicians also claim to have a videotaped confession from the bodyguard. Kuchma denies everything, and a major scandal is brewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chernobyl Is Closed, But for How Long? | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

Frank also attacked the "harsh" penalties associated with the "victimless crime" of drug use and the "corrosive effect" on law enforcement, which, without a victim's assistance, often must resort to more intrusive measures...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rep. Frank Criticizes Punitive Drug Policies | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

...outwardly is not all that much. Bacon, Montaigne, Emerson and a few brave others who attempted to write essays on the subject failed to define friendship because, unlike romantic love, the emotion is generally undemonstrative; it is made up of the things we do not do--betray, belittle, be harsh. When it does manifest itself, we often don't see it coming, which is where friendship gets its power--from the slow, cordial dance of ordinary life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sometimes It's a Wonderful Life | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...less than a year before Randolph returned to America. This time, bringing with her a sick mother-in-law, she was greeted by a harsh Boston winter that was a far cry from her weather at home...

Author: By Hannah E. Kenser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Haitians, despite obstacles, plant city roots | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

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