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...last year, Putin has so far remained silent about the protests. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov dismissed the unrest as "arising mostly at the level of psychological perceptions and being fanned by the media." But people still blame the President. PUTIN IS A WORSE ENEMY THAN HITLER, read a typical poster in Samara, 885 km east of Moscow, where protesters blockaded main roads for days. Even the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexi II, weighed in, calling on the state to prevent the reforms from depriving "people of the real ability to use transportation and communication, preserve their housing...
...most twixters, this is the only culture--to get twixters where they need to go. If those who are 30 and older want the rest of the world to grow up, they'll have to show the twixters that it's worth their while. "I went to a Poster Children concert, and there were 40-year-olds still rocking," says Jennie Jiang. "It gave me hope." --With reporting by Nadia Mustafa and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York, Kristin Kloberdanz/ Chicago and Marc Schultz/ Atlanta...
...move into at least five other cities this year, is endorsed by the Colorado State Patrol and sponsored by the likes of local beer Goliath Coors, which agreed to pay the first $20 of every ride on New Year's. But NightRiders' most effective marketing tool is a poster comparing its fees--a $15 flat rate plus $2 a mile--with the price of a single DUI conviction, which can run up to $8,866 in Colorado when fines, legal fees and auto-insurance penalties are included. "The sad fact of it is," says NightRiders co-founder Brad Dickerhofe, "people...
Standing behind a pyramid of naked inmates at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, Specialist Charles Graner became the poster boy for detainee abuse. Now Graner could spend more than 17 years in his own cell for his alleged leading role in the abuses. Three other members of Maryland's 372nd Military Police Company have pleaded guilty; three more, including Graner's girlfriend, Private First Class Lynndie England, face charges. Specialist Joseph Darby, the unit member who first reported the abuses, is in hiding after multiple threats...
...course, objections to the TSA policy need to address the opposing perspective, summed up nicely by a poster in response to the NYT story: “Cry me a river. I don’t want to have to be trying to rip a terrorists [sic] throat out at 35K feet because she didn’t want to be touched.” Hero complex aside, this view would seem to be logically correct; after all, isn’t being groped a small price to pay for the security of the American People? Except we?...