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...expert in Soviet-era prison tactics sees a familiar pattern in the assault on Khodorkovsky. Alexei Kondaurov, a retired KGB major-general, a former official of Khodorkovsky's oil company, Yukos, and current member of the Russian legislature, recalls how other convicts, often mentally unstable, were recruited as agents and placed around a target prisoner. They don't need orders to assault a prisoner singled out by the administration for harsh treatment, Kondaurov says. "They just do it to seek lenience and rewards...
...this pattern of departures and arrivals continues, I think we’re going to find a college that’s very different and far inferior to the one we had before,” Thomas said in an interview after Associate Dean of Freshmen Rory A. W. Browne announced his decision to leave the College last week...
...Fortunately, the admissions office is used to dealing with this kind of subjective information all the time—in school reports, personal essays, and references—and has said that it would only act on the feedback were it to inform some kind of “pattern.” If used properly, ultimately, feedback from proctors and senior tutors about their students can only help to improve admissions procedures...
...photographer may stand in a corner at a state banquet. She doesn't usually get cross. "Do you really think so?" is usually enough to signal staff they are proceeding down a dead end. But as for changing the fundamental ways the palace works, she sticks with her instinctive pattern and mostly waits for suggestions. Her biographer Lacey calls her "not an innovator, but a sensitive responder, and she is very well advised. Successful monarchs are great listeners...
...about is Extended Spring. As one Indians coach aptly described Central Florida in June, “Hell is hot...and then there is Extended.” “Extendo,” as it is called, is more or less like being put in a holding pattern. It is a place with no real games and no real statistics. Its members are composed of those unlucky players who fail initially to break camp when Spring Training ends on April...