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...kick off promisingly when Gazprom, Russia’s Kremlin-owned energy monopoly, interrupted Ukraine’s natural gas flow through the ironically named “Brotherhood” pipeline. Ever since the downfall of the USSR, former satellite Soviet republics have benefited from heavily subsidized gas prices. Wanting to update Ukraine’s access to “international standards,” Gazprom raised the price of gas from $50 per thousand cubic meters to $230. The more than 400-percent increase was cleverly couched in the Western language of free trade and open international...
...also set the stage for a high-stakes political battle when George W. Bush named him to the Supreme Court two decades later. As Alito's confirmation hearings kick off on national television this week, Senators and viewers will be asking, Is this the man of the memos, whose paper trail includes provocative passages against abortion and in favor of Executive power that have given Democrats and liberal interest groups the ammunition to portray him as a dangerous activist? Or would the high court be getting the more opaque and reserved scholar described by friends and co-workers and suggested...
Then, on Dec. 16 in Hanover, N.H., Dartmouth built up a 3-0 lead on its way to an easy 5-1 victory over the same Crimson squad that defeated the Big Green 6-2 to kick off the season...
...goal in the middle period kept the Raiders in the game.“Progressively we picked up our speed and connected our passes and started to really make things happen,” Schroyer said. “We developed throughout the game.”Raimondi kick-started the Crimson offense in the opening frame by stealing a pass at the Colgate blue line and beating Wheeler with just over six minutes left in the period. She also notched two assists on the afternoon.“I think today we just capitalized on our opportunities...
State of War doesn't follow a clear narrative arc. The action kick-starts midway through the first chapter, in March 2002: days after the arrest of Abu Zubaydah, at the time the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, Bush summoned CIA director George Tenet to the White House to ask what intelligence Abu Zubaydah had provided his captors. According to Risen's source, Tenet told Bush that Abu Zubaydah, badly wounded during his capture, was too groggy from painkillers to talk coherently. In response, Bush asked, "Who authorized putting him on pain medication?" Risen makes the leap...