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...control the situation any longer." Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to reassert his control. "Terrorists must be plucked out of the basements and caves and destroyed," he said after the attack on the rock festival. The tough talk echoed his promise during the 1999 election campaign "to rub out the terrorists on the john," remarks that preceded a brutal crackdown in Chechnya in which an untold number of Chechens and at least 6,000 Russian soldiers died. Shortly before his death, Shchek-ochikhin, the 53-year-old Deputy Chair of the State Duma's Security Committee and an outspoken opponent...
...Baathists - and, possibly, pockets of Sunni Islamists and disaffected former army officers who have suddenly found themselves with no source of income since the U.S. two weeks ago dissolved the Iraqi army - the U.S. would have to badly botch its efforts to win Iraqi goodwill. But therein lies the rub: Although the U.S. is a long way off from alienating the majority of Iraqis to the extent that they'd consider taking up arms against the world's most powerful military, it has not, thus far, managed to endear the majority of Iraqis to the occupation authority, either...
It’s something I remember feeling self conscious about at 21 and silly about at 31. But the discomfort was my own, and if you’re uncomfortable it will rub off on the person you’re talking to. If you flinch, the person will feel you flinch...
...that seems to be the rub. The signers of the petition to divest from Blair Hornstine, and the many others who have expressed similar sentiments over e-mail lists, seem to feel that Hornstine’s actions are so outrageous—so uniquely outrageous—that her matriculation at Harvard would substantially lower the College’s moral tenor...
...fairness to proponents of death sentences, these are usually carried out by lethal injection, perhaps the most physically humane method of killing ever devised (they even rub alcohol onto your skin before inserting the needle). Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Banks’s case comes almost exactly five years to the day after the Texas execution of Joseph Cannon, a juvenile offender, which featured collapsing veins, a long delay and a second final statement. Twenty-three other improper applications of the lethal injection (out of 680) have taken place nationally since its first...