Word: manye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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We pull up next to him. He is sweating profusely and grinning. We slip him $5--for many, we're told, that's almost a month's salary--because we are wealthy and glamorous Americans and we appreciate his help. So easy to change the quality, the very direction, of...
At least that was how it seemed until last week, when someone forgot the new war plan. On Wednesday evening a Russian armored column rolled deep into downtown Grozny, the besieged and ruined Chechen capital, only to be ambushed by 2,000 rebels. Caught in the open as they advanced...
The toll on civilians has been devastating, but Moscow seems not to care. One of Yermolov's tactics was to destroy any village whose inhabitants resisted, as an example. General Troshev, commanding the eastern sector, takes the same approach. No one knows how many civilians have died, especially in Grozny...
The Chechens will try to kill as many Russians as possible in Grozny, then retire into the hills to wage guerrilla warfare with hit-and-run strikes into occupied towns and cities. The Russians say they are strangling the rebels in a ring of steel, but squeezing Jell-O is...
If so, it's an illusion that has appeared in very different guises to different groups. Says Greenwich observatory director Kristen Lippencott, who put together the British exhibition: "Time is not the thing on our wrists. Time is a cultural object." For many outside the Western European tradition, for instance...