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Opponents of rent control, however, say the injustice of rent control forced them to seek relief from outside the municipal government...
Disillusioned by hopes of a close friendship with Ho that did not materialize, Tadesse wrote during her sophomore year, "Trang [Ho] told me I am boring.... If I ever grow desperate enough to seek power & a fearful respect through killing, she would be the first one I would blow...
...undergoing a true social revolution," says Michael McFaul, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment Moscow Center. "It is not simply a transition-to-democracy situation, when both sides agree on the ultimate outcome and contest for the right to lead the way there. In Russia today both camps seek a zero-sum victory, with no consensus about or commitment to the new rules of the game in the wake of the ancient regime's collapse. Everything is at stake here, the entire political, economic and societal makeup of the nation...
Once again in Moscow after three years. First impression: the city looks better. I tell this to my Moscow friends. They are pleased. The Russians set great store by how foreigners view them. In their opinions they seek the answer to one of the most fundamental Russian questions, which recently was freshly formulated by the excellent Russian essayist Natalya Ivanovna: "Will Russia join 'the civilized world,' or will it continue along its separate path, which even today is deemed perilous by other nations...
...find Russian-style democracy, one must seek it not in the political system but in the new openness of Russian society. It can be glimpsed in the marches against the war in Chechnya by mothers of draft-age men, in the anti-Kremlin diatribes printed by tabloids that leave an unpleasant ink smudge on the fingers. There are less appetizing signs as well in the thuggish youths wearing gym suits who hawk alcohol and cigarettes in sheet-metal kiosks, keeping one step ahead of the law, and in the smug young bankers who make million-dollar deals in currency exchange...