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...like Putin, are veterans of the Soviet KGB - is said to be trying to push the President into an aggressively populist stance in preparation for the presidential elections next spring, Gleb Pavlovsky, a key Kremlin strategist, tells Time. Hard-liners are trying to "shift the President's position," and portray him as "the leader of the impoverished masses," Pavlovsky says, a move that could be politically disastrous. Putin is not backing the faction, Pavlovsky claims, and the President's silence is a result of "disarray" rather than consent. But by hesitating, he has allowed the situation to deteriorate. Sooner...
...scenes portray the murder of Dr. George Parkman, an upper-class graduate of Harvard Medical School, the discovery of his dismembered body in the laboratory of his acquaintance John White Webster—a Harvard chemistry professor—and the subsequent trial that led to Webster’s exeuction by hanging...
...that we're drooling idiots in exchange for getting to look at boobies. But TV marketing coups don't necessarily appeal to viewers' better angels. The women's network Lifetime is one of cable's great success stories, largely on the strength of an endless succession of movies that portray women as rape and abuse victims. Its rival Oxygen launched in 2000 with an idealistic plan to target ambitious, educated feminists--then found out that only about four of them felt the need to be empowered by a cable channel...
...report] is not in any way intended to portray the fact that we had any doubts that such a program existed." VICE ADMIRAL LOWELL JACOBY, Defense Intelligence Agency director, after the report was made public...
...your mortgage lender in another way. You might, in a moment of weakness, take the opportunity to frame your economic situation in a particularly favorable light to your prospective lender and go to fewer pains to do so with the IRS. Indeed, you might take great liberties to portray your economic situation in two divergent ways that would serve your best interests. While guilt and shame and the possibility of detection might deter you, you might find yourself coming up with all kinds of curious rationalizations for why something is income (to the lender) or an expense...