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...cultural icon, Barbie is fair game. Europe Gets Defensive So much for the moral high ground. Despite European opposition to the U.S. missile-defense program, European Aeronautic Defense and Space (EADS), Italy's Alenia Spazio and Britain's BAE signed deals to work on the project. Last Things First Russian businesses paid up to $33.5 billion in bribes last year, but Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is determined to modernize the economy - by ordering businesses to comply with international accounting standards by 2004. BOTTOM LINES "Women invest with their heads and men with testosterone." Angela Knight, CEO of the Association...
...lump of space rock did hit the earth it could wipe out a continent, throw up dustclouds that would block sunlight for months and quickly take humankind to the brink of extinction. So plan accordingly. RUSSIA Lost Young Men The Helsinki Federation, an international human-rights organization, accused the Russian military of a campaign of executions in Chechnya aimed at reducing the breakaway republic's male population. The Federation alleged that around 50 to 80 Chechen men are abducted and murdered each month during sweep-and-search operations by Russian special forces. SUDAN Peace at Last? Sudanese President Omar...
...recent weeks Saudi militants have resumed their campaign against one of the original sources of bin Laden's wrath: the 6,000 American troops stationed on Saudi soil. In June, after U.S. investigators discovered the spent casing of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile lying in the desert near the Prince Sultan air base, Saudi intelligence arrested 11 Saudi members of an al-Qaeda cell for plotting to shoot down U.S. jets that use the facility and for preparing attacks against other American targets in the kingdom. It was the first official acknowledgment since Sept. 11 that the organization...
...Russian women do have more educational and professional opportunities now than they did in past decades. But it seems that the poor economic conditions combined with the influx of Western beauty standards have pushed many Russian women into a corner that American women don’t face. Every way they turn, they are encouraged to act as objects—and are rewarded for doing...
Anne K. Kofol ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Mather House. This summer she is studying Russian in St. Petersburg and enjoying her blini with chocolate. She vows to be nicer to tourists when she gets back to New York in August...