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...would Russia promise $5.4 billion to bail out Iceland, when Iceland's traditional allies weren't offering the money? After all, Russia has its own grave financial issues to deal with. Does the country really expect to be paid back in "the famous Icelandic herring, popular in Russia since Soviet times?" as Victor Tatarintsev, Russian ambassador to Iceland, noted in an interview on Russian television. More likely, this act of benevolence is being viewed as a way for Russia to help secure a bridgehead for an advance into the Arctic regions to claim the vast hydrocarbon and other mineral deposits...
...Case: Herring v. United States Hearing Date: Oct. 7 Background: Bennie Dean Herring was arrested in Coffee County, Alabama after trying to pick up his impounded car from his local police station. While he was at the station, the county investigator asked for a check for warrants in Herring's name. While none were found in Coffee County, the warrant clerk learned that there was a warrant on Herring in a neighboring town. He was subsequently arrested and faced additional charges for drugs and a gun possession. Minutes after his arrest, though, Coffee County police learned that the warrant...
Gogol Bordello's lyrics are likewise peppered with exuberantly oddball Eastern European humor. In one song on Super Taranta Hutz sings: "Have you ever been to an American wedding? /Where's the vodka, where's the marinated herring?" He does deep too. The song Supertheory of Supereverything, Hutz explains, is a "humorous attempt to explain the universe." He then offers a lengthy elucidation exploring the intersection of philosophy and theology before concluding: "Basically, if you're asking am I with Carl Jung or Sigmund Freud, I'm with Carl Jung...
...world with more perils. If we cannot stop ourselves from throwing a beer can overboard, how can we effectively manage nuclear weapons, atomic energy and gene splitting. My hope is that we can; my fear is that we cannot. James R. Vernon Fort Worth The picture of the herring gull sitting proudly but snarled by the plastic mesh of a six-pack haunts me and makes me terribly sad. Richard N. Sorensen Lincoln...
Russian consumers, according to a recent report from Euromonitor International, want to be entertained, so to keep them interested, Teremok regularly introduces new fillings. (The latest is salmon, herring, cucumber and a special sauce). Teremok gives away toys, based on a popular Russian children's cartoon, with kids' meals and uses secret shoppers to monitor workers' politeness. (Bonuses are distributed on the basis of their reports.) All of it is learning by doing. "When I see a problem," Goncharov says, "we buy books on the topic, then we read, then we decide...