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...reason for the fighting in Chechnya is, pure and simple, control of an oil supply line critical to the economy of Russia. Russia relies heavily on its exports of natural resources such as oil and timber to bring in hard currency from the West. It needs these resources if it is to have any hope of rebuilding its economy and maintaining its fragile democracy. The independence issue is a backdrop to what Yeltsin reckons to be the higher national interest of preserving the oil supply and thus preserving any progress made by the new democratic Russia. Isn't Yeltsin merely...
...trio also laments inner-city despair on the ballad Waterfalls (``My only bleedin' hope/ Is for the folk who can't cope''). But the secret of TLC's success isn't social commentary. It may not fit the initials, but what TLC really stands for is pure, funky fun. And CrazySexyCool delivers...
...latest version of the fad started among the flower children of California, for whom its appeal is easy to understand. For one thing, it is pure psychedelia. And tie-dying is cheap. For little added cost, it can turn a 32 cents T shirt into strawberry fields forever, or an old pair of jeans into a tiptoe through the tulips.The fashion spread rapidly through the rock world; many of its stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes...
Phiber says he had no interest in anything so venal. He adheres to a self- styled "hacker ethic," which justifies any computer intrusion as long as the motive is pure. In his mind, he was studying the phone system as an architecture student would the floor plan for a cathedral: as a thing of beauty. Still, when Secret Service agents began investigating telephone- company complaints, they found his digital footprints everywhere. During one six-month period, according to Secret Service logs, he broke into AT&T computers in Chicago and Portland, Maine, 69 times...
...second basic kind -- the one more specifically linked to gridlock and to the budget deficit -- is a bit more subtle and more pernicious. And like the first one, it ultimately gets back to Madison. In addition to his dread of mass "passions," Madison had a second nightmare about "pure democracy": it "can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction...