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...Wellstone's contrarian act. No other member of the Senate was on the losing side of so many 99-to-1 or 98-to-2 votes, and none voted more consistently against the Bush Administration, according to the Congressional Quarterly. But Wellstone was not merely obstreperous. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was encouraged by his father, a frustrated playwright and essayist who spoke 10 languages and worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow, to live a life that merged intellectual pursuits with community service. At 19, Wellstone married his high school sweetheart, Sheila Ison, the daughter...
President Vladimir Putin faced rising criticism Monday as Russians digested the cost of Saturday's dramatic hostage rescue. Medical authorities have revealed that all 115 hostages who died on Saturday when Russian special forces stormed a Moscow theater to end a three-day siege by Chechen gunmen were killed not by their captors, but by a mystery gas used to subdue the terrorists. Russian officials expressed regret over the casualties, but emphasized that their intervention had saved the bulk of the 700 hostages the Chechens were planning to kill - and they refused to disclose the type of gas used...
...TIME.com: How have reports that most of the hostages killed in the Moscow theater siege were poisoned by the gas used by their rescuers affected Russian views of how the crisis was handled...
...when people on Sunday turned on their radios and heard that the hostage death toll was actually 117, and that almost all had died from gas poisoning and that the government was still refusing to say what type of gas it had used, people may have been shaken. The Russian media is gently raising the question of whether it had to be done this way, and whether the authorities were correct in withholding information about the gas. But it's too early to tell how this will play...
...confident, however, that in the long run President Vladimir Putin's prestige won't suffer in Russian eyes as a result. Russians really like the fact that there's a tough guy running the state. And they don't expect the state to be a benign entity - over the last hundred years, they've come to expect that any situation in which the state's authority is challenged results in a lot of unpleasantness...