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...personal satisfaction involved in working for the Hague offset having to pass up on traveling in Italy? Also, if you’re doing it in Russia, Central Asia, or Eastern Europe, you can work through the more sexily named Andrei Sakharov Internship through the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies...
...yields clues that all is not right in Pleasantville. In recent years, growing exposure to the outside world and the spread of grassroots markets around the country appear to have eroded totalitarian controls and changed mindsets in the doggedly Stalinist state. How much is hard to say. But a Russian scholar on our tour notes that the crowds aren't as passionate as they once were. In the 1980s, ?You could see their eyes shining,? says Andrei Lankov, who lived in Pyongyang in 1984-85. ?People are maybe not learning the truth but (they are) getting tired...
...visit to China by Bush, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters on Air Force One: ?We have good relations with China, so we're able to speak frankly.? So in the next few days, Bush will face the same challenge he has in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin: How much is too much, and how much is too little, when it comes to jawboning human rights and religious liberty...
While the play does occasionally resort to outright hysterics, such outbursts are always both warranted and intensely moving. In particular, Martin’s and Kargman’s messy, passionate performances are so intensely emotional that, in intimate theater, they transcend the sometimes overwrought melodrama of great Russian writing, and they manage to transmit to the audience something heartbreakingly real...
...bills, and followed Lydia into the room, which was “illuminated by a lone red light bulb,” according to the report. Services referred to as “doctor,” “foot fetish,” “Russian ending,” and “pop the cork” were also offered to Cherubino. The report describes “Russian ending” as “when you have a satisfactory ending of the session between the women [sic] breast...