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...access the Internet." Perhaps unsurprisingly, in polls Putin's approval ratings are high, nearly 70%. But these positive trends coexist with many signs that Russia is stumbling on the path toward free-market democracy - so much so that some U.S. and European legislators and human-rights groups want to kick it out of the G-8. Russia's postcommunist transition was always going to be slow and erratic, but what worries many experts now is that the direction of travel in many areas is reverse. U.S. pro-democracy organization Freedom House's annual country ratings show a steady decline...
...Student debt is like quicksand—it swallows you up before you have a chance to gain your footing,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., told The Northwest Indiana Times yesterday. “Graduating from college should kick start a young person’s professional life, but massive debt will just bog you down for decades...
...Narseal Batiste, 32, presented an FBI informant he thought was an al-Qaeda operative with a list of materials necessary for jihad, it did not include explosives. Instead Batiste asked for $50,000, radios, uniforms and steel-toed boots. Was the plan to blow the Sears Tower up or kick it down...
...prime Jackie Chan action film on Canal Street - where the locals chatted and noshed through the movie, and you always propped your feet on the seat in front of you, to keep the rats from breaking your concentration on the martial marvels on the screen - had the furtive kick of buying reefers from a zoot-suited dude on 125th Street...
...Although U.S. players, not surprisingly, were bitter about the penalty kick that cost them the game, they also acknowledged that they hadn't done enough to win. "We didn't do our job either," said McBride, alluding to referee Merk's decision. McBride spent much of the contest futilely chasing long balls kicked over his head from the back line. This will likely be the big centerman's last World Cup, but if the U.S. wants to qualify for the next one, they'd better produce a top flight striker, and soon, as McBride was operating alone for much...