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Russian President Vladimir Putin threw a major fit on state television Monday night. In a vituperative appearance, he accused the neighboring nation of Belarus of ungratefulness and intransigence in the ugly quarrel over energy prices and pipelines. He said that Russia had virtually subsidized the neo-Stalinist regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko over the past five years. Now the Belarussians' illegal tapping of tens of thousands of tons of oil had forced Moscow to shut down the pipeline that runs through Belarus - inconveniencing not just Russian oil companies but their energy-hungry customers farther to the west, including Germany...
What happens when the little guy plots revenge? Over New Year's Day, tiny Belarus caved in to Russia, its gigantic gas supplier and next-door neighbor, agreeing to a steep rise in prices. On Jan. 3, however, Belarus' neo-Stalinist President Alexander Lukashenko - and formerly a professed ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin - said on television that his government officials should "feel free getting oil supplies at your discretion, wherever you can" at non-extortionist prices. "Oil refineries must be supplied. Otherwise, our chemical/petroleum industries, that account for half of our economy, will stop, which means millions of people...
...Little Engine That Could, some gramps will tell them, "Once, kids, there was a thing called harmony." There's no richer reminder of how lovely three voices singing as one can sound than this album by the New Jersey sibs: soprano Terre, contralto Maggie and alto Suzzy. The sisters' neo-traditional sound works wonders on a range of Christmas songs. A third of the 24 cuts are of secular songs, including a Caribbean-flavored "Deck the Halls," a "Sleigh Ride" whose percussion is horse-clop tongue clicks and a very heavily Brooklyn-accented "Winter Wonderland." Even the infectious title track...
...bringing together a macabre assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other right-wing cranks - many of whom would be just as keen to rid Europe of Muslims as the Nazis were to empty the continent of its Jewish population - in Tehran this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeks to deny or diminish the reality of the Holocaust. And while that may seem like just another slap in the face of the West, to the extent that anyone in the Arab world takes him seriously, the Iranian president is also doing them a profound disservice...
...matches was at the number three spot, where junior Supriya Balsekar won the third and decisive game by a 10-8 final. Overall, there were eight games in which the Crimson players did not even allow its counterparts to get a point on the board. Freshman Charlene Neo, in the ninth spot, prevented Catherine Duboc of Cornell from registering a single point in an entire contest. At the top spot, senior Kyla Grigg also faced a relatively simple challenge as she beat Maxi Prinsen 9-2, 9-0, 9-0. Junior Jen Blumberg...