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Vladimir putin wasn't able to rub out the Chechen guerrillas, Viktor Shenderovich remarked ruefully last Saturday, but he sure got us. Shenderovich, whose impishly satirical programs are wildly popular in Moscow, had just resigned from NTV, Russia's only privately owned nationwide network. A few hours earlier NTV as...
As George W. Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove is supposed to keep the President in a healthy political glow. But on one key issue recently, Rove stood by while Bush turned as gray as a hazy day in Houston. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions...
It took President Bush less than two months to break his campaign pledge to restrict carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired electric-utility plants, despite widespread scientific agreement that such emissions contribute to global warming [NATION, March 26]. By doing so, Bush also broke another promise--his pledge to restore...
It clearly takes a lot of courage for professors to place their courses before such unruly evaluators as us students, but they too find rewards: instructors receive valuable advice and can even pledge in the CUE course guide’s pages to turn a course for the better after...
Recently, Bush reversed a campaign pledge to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant.