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Though the program met with opposition from civil rights advocates, it was reinstated in October 2006 by then-Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in an attempt to deter terrorist acts...
Exiled to the West in 1974, Rostropovich earned mass admiration, and a king's fortune. When he became music director of America's National Symphony Orchestra three years later, TIME put him on its cover, branding him, with cold-war gusto, "Washington's greatest new monument." But he always maintained a refugee's yearning for his homeland, and this only intensified the pathos of his playing. His Paris apartment was a veritable Hermitage of Russian artifacts, and even after he was stripped of his citizenship, he proudly described himself as Russian, an allegiance he affirmed by flying to Moscow earlier...
...after eight years of moderate growth. Under pressure from international sanctions, nearly every sector of the North's lilliputian economy contracted, with new construction plummeting 11.5%. Torrential rains in August, meanwhile, destroyed an estimated 11% of the country's rice and corn crops, again raising the specter of a mass famine like the one that killed as many as a million people in the mid-1990s...
Allen's financial contribution to the project was laundry money to the likes of him--$25 million, a bargain price made possible by increases in computing power and the small (18 ft., or about 5 1?2 m) size of each dish, which makes them easy to mass-produce. But $25 million is still hard to come by when you have to tell your banker that you're using it to hunt for aliens, which is why it's nice to be a man who doesn't need a banker...
...attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing that has left some 200,000 civilians dead and more than 2 million displaced is occurring the context of a civil war that pits the government and its allied janjaweed militia against an assortment of anti-government rebel groups - including the one headed by Nur. Ending the violence in Darfur requires...