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...strange irony, another group of people came out onto the streets last week to publicize their demands: the families of the victims of Beslan. Since Jan. 20, several hundred have occupied a major highway in North Ossetia, cutting off all traffic, to draw attention to their demand for the resignation of Alexander Dzasokhov, President of North Ossetia, whom they hold responsible for last year's tragedy. Some inside the Kremlin fear that Putin's combination of concessions and crackdowns won't be enough to stop the same thing being demanded...
Fried said the Court’s 1987 ruling in South Dakota v. Dole, which held that the federal government could reduce highway funding to states that refused to impose a 21-year-old minimum drinking age, suggested that Congress could not impose unduly coercive penalties for noncompliance...
...Tula, 165 km south of Moscow, where more than 40 such assaults on bus and tram conductors were recorded in just three days. Not in Khimki on the outskirts of Moscow, where several thousand travelers heading for the airport missed their flights because a thousand furious pensioners blocked the highway for three hours. And certainly not in St. Petersburg on Saturday, where 10,000 brought downtown traffic to a standstill as Putin was paying a visit to his native city. Some waved signs demanding that he resign. What provoked all this violence and incivility? A new law that strips about...
...comes with luxuries like a leather-trimmed interior, heated front seats, power windows--and even an electronic noise-dampening system. Not to be outdriven, Lexus plans to roll out a hybrid SUV in April, the RX 400h, generating 270 h.p. and up to 27.6 m.p.g. in city-highway driving. It's off to a fast start, with 11,000 vehicles already presold...
ROAD TRIP: The costliest highway project is either a great innovation or a Texas-size boondoggle...