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...right to defend himself this way." Long a thorn in Russia's side, Chechnya declared independence in 1991, and was granted substantial autonomy in 1996. It has remained a battleground, both with Russia and over human-rights issues. In the cases accepted in Strasbourg, Magomed Khashiyev and Roza Akayeva allege torture and extrajudicial execution of five relatives by Russian troops in Grozny in January 2000; Medka Isayeva and Zina Yusupova say they were wounded and three of Isayeva's relatives killed in an air bombardment of a refugee convoy near Shaami-Yurt in October 1999; Zara Isayeva says that four...
...alive, but I've got no respect for him. If what you described is the real Gates, I feel sorry for him. Someone who is blessed with such intelligence and wealth yet doesn't acknowledge that these gifts come from God is someone who is living a worthless life. ROZA AHMAD Kuantan, Malaysia
Somewhere in the Olympic Village as the partying picks up pace, it is not hard to imagine a 14-year-old girl crying. Her name is Roza Galieva. She is the gymnast from the gold-winning Unified Team who successfully fought her way to the coveted all-around competition, only to be robbed of her chance. Her coaches, in their unified wisdom, decided that one of Galieva's teammates, Tatiana Gutsu, was more likely to bank gold even though she had flubbed during the earlier team competition. So they exaggerated a knee injury to bench Galieva, made a quick substitution...
...affront. After years of delay, the government only last week began to install 36 flimsy prefabricated homes -- far short of the number needed to house the barrio's 100 families, who live without toilets or running water and cook on open fires. "The rats are eating us!" complains Alvarina Roza Jimenez, mother of eight, holding up her daughter's hand to show a scar. The seven-year-old is barefoot, filthy, with sores on her mouth...
...ROBERT V. ROOSA, 43, Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. The selection of bow-tied, scholarly Banker Roosa (pronounced Roza) to be Treasury's No. 3 man was audibly cheered by the U.S. financial community. A former teacher at both Harvard and M.I.T., Roosa was for four years research director for the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, earned a reputation in his trade as "the best central banker in the world." He has a good teacher's ability to talk lucidly on complex subjects, makes a brilliant congressional witness. Roosa has been the man behind Dillon...