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...probably an indicator of how Chechens and their supporters are feeling right now at a time when, as in 1996, the Russians may be deluding themselves but feel they have the upper hand in Grozny, the Chechen capital. You could draw the parallel that at the time of both hijackings, there was not a lot of good news for Chechens coming out of Chechnya...
...TIME.com: Maybe you can explain something that's confusing to a lot of people. Why do Census Bureau analysts insist on comparing so-called "Hispanics" and blacks as minority blocs? "Hispanic" doesn't have anything to do with race, so why make that parallel...
...falling in love with another boy at school. One ends up robbing a bookie. One has two goals in life: to disprove the work of a world-famous philosopher and to have sex so hard that he breaks the condom. But their tales are constantly intersecting, overlapping or running parallel. By the end, their three stories, as amazing as it may seem, have fused into one.It's a masterful narrative braiding, and it's almost as interesting as the stories themselves. But nothing really takes the place of a good yarn, and that's where this production truly shines...
...There's such a strong presence of the corporate world recruiting on campus. There really wasn't a parallel set of opportunities to find out what was out there in the public service world," he says...
...Saturday, big and his fellow bikers from the Do It Yourself Happy Homes are preparing for a night of bike racing by smoking more yaba and then, as if to get their 125-cc bikes in a parallel state of high-octane agitation, squirting STP performance goo from little plastic packets into their gas tanks. The bikes are tuned up and the mufflers are loosened so that the engine revving at full throttle sounds like a chain saw cutting bone: splintering, ear-shattering screeches that reverberate up and down the Sukhumvit streets. The bikers ride in a pack, cutting through...