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...Putin is not linking this incident to the war in Chechnya (which he says is over); he's saying this hostage crisis was a product of international terrorism. He's trying to very hard hitch himself to the American bandwagon, saying this has proven, as Russians say, on their own skin, that Russia is a target of international terrorism, and that they'll fight it by any means necessary. And in doing so, Putin is making a terrible mistake...
...David wanted to deal more with them, but he was too busy," says Elly. After four years the Wus decided to return to Virginia. David quickly found a comparable job at Teligent, and when that company went bankrupt just 10 months later, he signed on with Tyco. The hitch: he would have to resume a hectic flying schedule. So, when all three children were selected to join the prestigious American Youth Orchestra as violinists, David missed their concerts. He was also away for their basketball, soccer and volleyball games. And when he was home, he was so jet-lagged that...
...same hos.” Tillery’s life, though, is less problematic—at least for now. By the end of the night, he will have been nearly brought to tears by a Tom Cruise look-alike, tried in vain to hitch a ride from the Quad to the Yard with a guy he will drunkenly refer to as “the delivery man,” and even resorted to relieving himself on the sidewalk of Garden Street. But this is now, and right now, life is easy. Getting dressed for the evening...
...just a pipe. A few years ago, the planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and into the Mediterranean was touted by the U.S. as a way to get the Caspian's rich oil reserves without going through Russia. But there was a hitch: oil companies weren't terribly interested. With prices and demand still growing and U.S.-Russia relations improved, Cambridge Energy Research analyst Laurent Ruseckas says, commercial factors are now driving the $3 billion project. (It began construction last week, sponsored by British Petroleum, Norway's Statoil and others.) While there...
Franken participated in several marches on Washington during his college years—but only gained an arrest for hitch-hiking his way down in New Jersey...